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tended beyond the anal segment, but quite flat, yet furnished with a number of 

 separate hooked bristles, by which it holds tightly to its cocoon. This is extremely 

 thin and transparent, formed of loose white silk, through which the pupa is most 

 distinctly visible.] 



Leucaloa eugraphica, Walk. — " I found a pair in October in the shrubbery, and 

 obtained a considerable number of eggs. The larvae fed up on vine leaves, but as it 

 lives usually out upon the veldt the vine can scarcely be its natural food. I have 

 painted this larva in four stages ; some specimens had a few long while hairs trailing 

 back over the body. The moths emerged in February. On a previous occasion I 

 brought home a caterpillar in February, and it spun up almost immediately, yet did 

 not emerge till August — nearly six months." 



[From the last remark this species would appear to be double brooded. Its 

 young larva is figui'ed of a blackish-brown with a yellow dorsal line, and generally 

 distributed rather short hairs. Its head at this and the subsequent stages is bright 

 orange-red. When larger the colour is still very dark brown, with moderately 

 broad dorsal and spiracular pale yellow stripes, the hairs arranged in large dorsal 

 and lateral tufts, their colour bright red, mixed with black, and in the full grown 

 larva supplemented by extremely long curved hairs on the posterior segments. The 

 feet are black, and the ventral prolegs red. The pupa is dark red-brown, brilliantly 

 glossy all over, and only sculptured in a very faint degree with minute wrinkling on 

 the thorax and wing covers, and with minute pitting on the segments ; anal segment 

 bluntly and completely rounded, the only indication of a cremaster being a small 

 tuft of short hooked bristles. In a loose soft cocoon of silk mixed with the hairs 

 of the caterpillar, among leaves or rubbish.] 



Diaphora capeiisis, Herr.-Sch. — " Its caterpillar is of a lovely glaucous-green, 

 with white markings, and very short, erect, fine whitish hairs, the legs pale yellow 

 or light brown — such a pretty delicate thing — I wish it had waited to be painted, 

 but it spun up almost immediately, and produced this lovely favourite moth." 



[The moth may well be a favourite. It is an exquisite creature ! The fore- 

 wings pale green or greenish-buff with white stripes, a slender scarlet hind border, 

 with a large spot of the same colour at the apex and the anal angle ; the orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata large, filled up with red and edged with black ; above them 

 is a black cloud along the costa. Hind-wings bright yellow with a large black 

 central spot, and a hind border of black spots. Abdomen yellow. Thox-ax orange- 

 black and white. The pupa skin enclosed is curious, the surface of the wing covers, 

 as well as the dorsal and abdominal segments, thickly covered with close, fine pitting 

 and roughnesses ; the antenna covers finely barred with cross sculpture ; the anal 

 segment thick and extremely blunt ; the cremaster showing only two small, distinct, 

 upturned points ; colour dark purple-red. In a thin silken cocoon in a folded leaf.] 



Metarctia rufesceiis, Walk. — " The caterpillar is a rapid traveller. It is not un- 

 common among dead leaves and rubbish, or under a hedge. It will feed on a juicy 

 creeper with ivy-shaped leaves growing in the garden, but I doubt whether this is 

 its proper food, since it is usually found far away from this plant." 



[This moth is of about the size and colour of Phragmatohia fuUginosa, which 



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