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This is a very conspicuous caterpillar; and like most of the African species of Bunaeinae, 

 those which are very spiny are also very showily ornamented, with black, black and white, or 

 red, or black and yellow, or red and brown marks. Like Vanessa larvae, being protected by 

 their spines, they are decked in bright, conspicuous colors. 



The larva above described is from Natal, kindly loaned by Lieut. Col. J. M. Fawcett. 



SYNTHERATA Maassen. 



[Syntlierata Maassen, Beitr. Schmett., Ill (1873), figs. 42, 43.] 



[S. weymeri Maassen is the type.] 



[Rothschild, Nov. Zool., II, 1895, thus arranges the species:] 



(1) S. janetta (White). [Australia.] 



ab. melvilla (Westw.). [Melville I.] 



ab. disjuncta (Walk.). Amboina and German New Guinea. 



ab. weymeri (Maass.). [Australia.] 



(2) S. godeffroyi Butler. [New Britain.] 



(3) S. loepoides (Butler). Java, and Mount Kina Balu, northern Borneo. 

 [Sonthonnax (1900) has described a species from Madagascar as S. madagascariensis.] 



SYNTHERATA INSIGNIS (Walker). 



Plate XLI, fig. 3. 



RHODIA Moore. [RHODINIA Staudinger, 1892.] 



[Rhodia Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 578; nom. praeocc. (Bell, 1835).] 



[Rothschild, Nov. Zool., II (1895), p. 45, lists the species as follows:] 



1. R. newara Moore. [Nepal.] 



2. R.fugax Butler. [Japan.] 



subsp. diana (Oberth.). [Manchuria.] 



3. R. jankowskii (Oberth.). [Askold.] 



4. R.davidi (Oberth.). [Thibet.] 



[R. thespis, royi and olivacea are referred to Salassa.] 



[Venation: R. newara (type of genus) has III! separate at end, III 2 + 3 fused. R.fugax 

 (both sexes) has III 2 widely separated at end from III 3 .] 



RHODIA FUGAX Butler. 



Plate XXVIII, fig. 6; XXIX; XXX, figs. 1, 2; XL, figs. 2, 3; CII, figs. a-d. 



Rhodia fugax Butler, Annals, and Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) XX, p. 480, 1877. Illustrations of Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., II, 



p. 17, PI. XXVI, fig. 1, 1878. 

 [Rhodinia fugax (Butler).] 



" cf , allied to the Indian R. newara, but much smaller, the primaries less falcate; the trans- 

 verse bands darker, grayer, more dentated; the hyaline spots of primaries much larger, those 

 of secondaries much smaller, the rosy tints replaced by rusty reddish, which also suffuses the 

 greater part of the external area of the secondaries; antennae much darker. Expanse of wings 

 4 inches, 3-4 lines. Yokohama, Jonas." (Butler, Illustr.) 



The eggs, received from Japan, were hatched April 27, and the larvae described on the 28th. 

 It feeds on the poplar and dwarf willow. 



Larva. — Stage I: Length 6 mm. Head largo, wider than the body, with long scattered 

 hairs; brown-black with a transverse whitish patch on the clypeus-anterior, while the base of 

 the antennas is of the same color, so that across the front of the head extends a broken whitish 

 inconspicuous Line. The body, as usual in freshly hatched Saturnian larvae before the larva 

 has taken food, tapers to the end. 



The dorsal tubercles are distinct, a little longer (or higher) than thick, those on the thoracic 

 segments larger than the abdominal ones; those on the prothoracic segment about half as large 

 as those on the second thoracic segment, which are very slightly larger and longer than those 



