172 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



2. Charaxes madensis, sp. nov. 



? . Allied to C. mars, the female of which is figured hy Oberthiir 

 in Bull. Soc. Ent. France, p. 194, f. 12 (1897) ; but differs in the white 

 band of the blackish brown fore wing being wider and standing farther 

 from cell ; the inner edge of this band is deeply concave at the lower 

 median vein ; there is no separate post-discal series of spots on the 

 upper side of the fore wing. On the hind wing, above, the white band 

 is more sharply defined, much narrower, and all white ; the blackish 

 brown outer area is very much broader, the posterior patches at least 

 four times the width of those of female mars, not separated from one 

 another. On the under side the white scaling on the fore wing is 

 anteriorly more extended than in the female of mars', the median 

 black bars are more distal, the discal ones much feebler ; the black 

 submarginal spots of the hind wing are large and stand about 4 mm. 

 from the edge of the wing. Length of fore wing 60 mm. 



Hab. Mt. Mada, Bum, 3000 ft., August, 1898 (Dumas). 



EMYDIA CHI BRUM: A EEMINISCENCE. 

 By G. B. Corbin. 



From my earliest collecting days Emydia cribrum has been a 

 favourite species with me, but for several years past a limited 

 power of locomotion has entirely prevented my visiting its par- 

 ticular haunts. When we consider the somewhat frequent, 

 extensive, and all-consuming fires that periodically sweep over 

 one or more of its favourite habitats, and this coupled with the 

 greed of some collectors, it seems almost a marvel that the 

 species has so far "held its own" in the comparatively limited 

 area in which it occurs. 



My first acquaintance with the species was in my schooling 

 days — in 1860 or 1861, I believe — when I accompanied the Rev. 

 Joseph Greene to the then famed "Parley Heath," where the 

 insect was first discovered by Mr. Dale, and I recollect we took 

 two or three specimens. Since then, I think I may safely say I 

 have visited all the heaths for miles around, and some seasons 

 have seen E. cribrum literally swarming in certain spots, and on 

 particular evenings, for, although most collectors take it in the 

 daytime, yet its natural time of flight is at dusk, or rather 

 twilight, both morning and evening, and in the peculiarity of its 

 abundance on particular occasions it displays a very marked 

 characteristic of other Lithosiidre ; for who that has collected in 

 the New Forest does not remember how Gnophria rubricollis 

 sometimes swarmed on the tree-tops in the warm sunshine ; or of 

 an evening, in the riding of the same wood, Lithosia griseola var. 

 stramincola was equally common ; and formerly, but, alas ! not 



