242 [November, 



spun up almost at once, suspending itself. I took the butterfly at 

 first for D. Ghrysippus, but it is quite different from the common 

 form." 



This is a splendid example of one of those curious brown varieties 

 of the female D. Misippus, which bear so startling a general resem- 

 blance to D. Ohrysippus, L. It, however, has the sub-apical spots of the 

 fore- wings pale brown ; other examples have them white, and still more 

 nearly resemble D. Ghrysippus. The pupa is very similar to that of a 

 Vanessa, but stouter, and has projecting bristly horns nearly a quarter 

 of an inch in length. The food plant was probably a Portulaca. 



Flanema esebria, Hew. — " I send the chrysalis and food plant. 

 Harry brought these home. The plant is like a thin straggling nettle, 

 with bristles all along the stem, and the caterpillars bear a comical 

 resemblance to the plant. They are greenish-brown, thin and wiry, 

 with rows of spines like those on the plant stem. The plant grows 

 in a deep ravine, clematis growing up into the trees, and the butterflies 

 sporting round it. The change from caterpillar to butterfly occupied 

 nearly a month." 



This butterfly, closely allied to Acrcea, with long fore-wings, has 

 all the wings brown-black, except an oblique white or yellow bar 

 beyond the middle of the fore-wings, and a large similar dorsal blotch 

 which is continued across the hind- wings as a very broad white or 

 yellow band. Its pupa must be very pretty, for the dried skins are 

 pellucid white, the head, eyes, palpi, tongue and legs all narrowly 

 outlined in slender black lines, and the wing cases plentifully striped 

 with the same, while down every side of the abdominal portion is a row 

 of conspicuous black rings or loops. The hairs on the cast larva skins 

 are extremely branched and bristly. 



39, Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. : 

 September, 1898. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS APROMBEMA, Dent. 

 (-= ANACAMP8IS, Auct., NEC Get.), FEOM ENGLAND. 



BY EUSTACE B. BANKES, M.A., E.E.S. 



Apeo^rema Vinella, spec. nov. 

 AntenncB fuscous-black, strongly and sharply annulated to the tips with bright 

 pale ochreous. Palpi, middle joint externally fuscous-grey, internally pale greyish- 

 ochreous, terminal joint long, recurved, pale greyish-ochreous, conspicuously striped 

 longitudinally with blackish-fuscous. Face pale grey or pale greyish-ochreous. 

 Head greyish-fuscous. Thorax and tegulce concolorous with fore-wings. Fore- 



