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The Charaxes, a species of very strong high- 

 flying butterfly, are particularly attracted by this 

 sap, even fighting for an extra juicy spot, push- 

 ing forwards, going back a little way to gain a 

 greater impetus, their wings making a percept- 

 ible noise whilst jostling each other about. Seeing 

 this, I tried the effect of sugaring the leaves with 

 the usual mixture of beer, treacle, sugar, dnd gin, 

 generally used to attract moths at night, and 

 was at once rewarded by seeing them fly to it 

 eagerly flying straight to the sugared leaves, 

 and greedily settling down to the feast, evidently 

 having scented it from afar. In this way I 

 captured many splendid specimens I should pro- 

 bably never even have seen without its aid. 



About sixteen varieties of Charaxes alone came 

 to it, amongst them C. PJiceus (n. sp. Hewitson), 

 male and female ; the female of C. Achcemenes, 

 unknown till then, C. Violetta (n. sp. Grose 

 Smith); and another magnificent large new female 

 Charaxes, but with the hind-wings so damaged 

 that Mr. Hewitson first described it as Philog- 

 noma Azota. 



