308 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. Fox has kindly compared this with the types in Phila- 

 delphia, and remarks that it comes near montana, Cresson. A 

 male from the West Fork of the Gila, July 16th (Townsend), is 

 identified by Mr. Fox as montana; it differs from the male of 

 gilensis in having the abdomen more uniformly hairy, and the 

 pubescence of the apex black. The labrum also is yellow, and 

 the mandibles have a yellow spot without. 



A female Melissodes, which is common at Santa Fe, Mr. Fox 

 says is apparently identical with confusa, although what I 

 regarded as its male is not the same as the male assigned to 

 confusa by Cresson. This bee, which is more especially found 

 on flowers of Grindelia squarrosa, but also on Lepachys tagetes, 

 about the beginning of August, is very much like M, gilensis^ but 

 is known from it at once by the hairs on inner side of first joint 

 of hind tarsi of the female being black, whereas in gilensis they 

 are reddish orange. 



Mesilla, New Mexico, U.S.A., July 5th, 1896. 



ON TWO NEW GHARAXES FROM THE LESSER SUNDA 



ISLANDS. 

 By the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.Z.S., F.E.S., &c. 



1. Charaxes sumbanus, sp. nov. 



This magnificent species belongs to the polyxena group, but 

 it is unlike any other Charaxes, and has the shape of the African 

 C, caudiope. The fore wing has deeply concave outer margin, 

 and strongly arched costa. 



$ . Fore wings : basal third dark russet-brown, with reddish 

 tinge, rest sooty black ; from the centre of costa almost to vein 16 runs 

 a broad oblique white band, 7 mm. wide at costa and 4 near vein 16 ; 

 this band is split up by the veins into six spots, of which the last is 

 double, and the spot between veins 2 and 3 is conspicuously larger 

 than the one before it ; the band includes two black dots behind costa ; 

 half-way between the band and apex just under the costa is a small 

 dirty buff spot. Hind wings : rufous chocolate ; near the margin is a 

 broad black band composed of seven oval spots, the two first 9 mm. 

 wide, and the following gradually diminishing to the anal angle ; 

 within the spots is a white dot, which in the three first stands nearer 

 the outer edge ; the first four black spots coalesce, while the three last 

 are separate ; on each side of the black band is a brownish yellow line, 

 that on the inner side consisting of crescent-shaped spots, which are 

 bordered inside with dark brown ; outer margin reddish chestnut, 

 darker at anterior half ; tip of tails yellow ; length of tails 9 mm. and 

 7 mm. respectively ; inside the brown border of the crescent-shaped 

 marks are three brownish white spots, first palest and largest, forming 

 a short curved band. Under side : fore wings isabelle drab ; white 



