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is also obscured in each case by a cloud of black scales arranged most beautifully in 

 rows of minute ripples, so that only the portion nearest the discal cell is actually 

 diaphanous.] 



Nudaurelia araheUa ^ .— " When E went to Libodi with her father she 



picked up a very ugly, heavy, earthy-looking caterpillar with a thick ridge across 

 every segment, and brought it home with difficulty in a handkerchief. It was put 

 into a tin with some earth, and buried itself before I could figure it. It was quite 

 smooth, without hairs or spikes. It remained in the chrysalis state for some months, 

 in the earth, quite naked." 



[This pupa-skin, which unfortunately became broken up on the journey, is of 

 great size, and almost massive ; it has a sharp ridge inside at each segmental division, 

 and the three free abdominal segments have ridged divisions more than an eighth of 

 an inch deep, so that, being opened out during emergence, the segments are separated 

 externally by great deep circular gashes. The exterior surface is stained with the 

 earth in which it was buried, and is dark chocolate-brown, very dull, roughened with 

 fine wrinkled eminences and hollows, looking under a magnifier like the bark of a tree, 

 the limb covers very compact, the antenna covers marked by rows of raised knobs ; 

 spiracles lai-ge and elongated ; dorsal segments ridged behind ; abdominal segments 

 strongly so before and behind, and these ridges cross-ribbed ; intermediate surface 

 of the segments very rough ; cremaster conical, running to a sharp black spike. The 

 inside surface of the thoracic portion of this pupa is rather shining, and of a pretty 

 silvery slate colour. On the inside of the anal segment, attached to the skin, are 

 two round black egg-like bodies, possibly of an excrementitious character.] 



Euckromia am(B>ia.—" I found this species in numbers, very locally, flying 

 round some blossoming and very thorny trees. They looked like animated whorls 

 in the bright sunshine, and I thought at first that they were beetles, they spun 

 round with such rapid vibration of the wings before settling; from this cause they 

 soon became damaged. Early morning or else just before sunset was the best time 

 for meeting with them, and they were only to be found for a fortnight." 



Syntomis KuhlweinH.—" This species I find by day upon blossoming trees, 

 especially about the thorny trees frequented by the last species ; some also I have 

 caught by the mulberry hedge when ir, was in blossom, and others about a flowering 

 juniper tree. It is a great favourite of mine. I have never seen it at night, and its 

 special time of flying seems to be just before sunset, though on one cloudy grey 

 evening they were sweeping too and fro with deliberate flight between a juniper and 

 an orange tree. When settled it is sluggish, and sometimes will allow one to carry 

 it on a twig or a grass stem. At Annshaw I used to catch it in the day time on the 

 blossoming lemon-thyme in the garden." 



Si/ntotnis fulvescenn.— ''This species was always found in the grass, and also 

 only in the day time. Its appearance is always more dull or dim than that of 

 S. Kuhhveinii, its hyaline spots being tinted with yellow-brown." 



Thyretes caffra.—'' This species was fairly common at Annshaw, but was only 



to be caught at night. Usually it came to the light at the verandah. I do not 



remember ever to have seen it by day, it just came to the light at a white-washed 



wall when we put a lamp upon the verandah table. It was very easy to catch." 



Neosymploca nei«Zo«rt.—" These were caught just at the New Year. Edward 



