138 [J^J^*^' 



Western Uganda, in November and December, 1900, and presented by 

 him to Mr. Wij^-jins. The tliir-d s|)ecimen was captured by Mr. 

 Wiggins liimself at Nyangori, near the east shore of the Victoria 

 Nyanza, November 1 — S, 1902. Mr. Wiggins is a most ardent 

 Entomologist, and has, within the last six months, sent several 

 thousand specimens of Lcpidoptcra from this district to the Hope 

 department. 



In conclusion, I should like to express m}"^ thanks to Mr. H. H. 

 Druce for his kindness in giving his opinion u|)on this species. 



Magdalen College, Oxfoi'd : 

 May, 1903. 



FtJETHER NOTES ON SOUTH AFRICAN L E PI D O PTER A. 



BY TRANCES 13AKUETT ; EDITED BV C. O. BAKUETT, E.E.S. 



{Continued f rum paije 83). 



Bouibycomorphd bifascia. Walk. — "Tiiese interesting, silkyl'ioking niotli.s came 

 from bairy larvse which, in great bunches, infested two little trees or buslies growing 

 by the dam— a very pretty shrub with trifoliate leaves, having rounded leaflets, 

 also an aromatic myrtle-like scent. Harry called my attention to these larvae, so 

 I put a net under the branch as it hung over the water, shook, and tlicy dropped 

 in nundiers. I got a lot of them, and how they did eat! They spin great webs in 

 the trees and as larva3 are altogether objectionable, but the moth is lovely anil I do 

 not remember to have taken it in any other way. The cocoons are very hard and 

 earthy, but ai-e not buried." 



[This moth is stout, the male Ij inches in expansi', the female '1 inches, the 

 thorax thickly tufted with downy silky scales, white ; fore-wings silky-wliite, first 

 and second lines broad and cloudy, pJilt' umbreous ; discal spot round, black ; hind- 

 wings silky-white, without markings. I^arva (as figured) rather slender, not thickly 

 covered with hair, the tufts of longer hairs thin, greyish -white, those along the sides 

 depressed and forming a rather dense fringe ; short hairs of the body more 

 numerous, pale yellow ; general colour grey mottled with white, a black spot on tlie 

 face, another at the back of the head, and a series down each side ; prologs red- 

 brown. Pupa thin skinned and very tender, glossy light red-brown, the segments 

 rapidly tapering, and the crcmaster short, blunt and rounded, hardly extending 

 beyond the anal segment. In a hard but very brittle, thin cocoon, very similar to 

 that of Erlogaster lanentris, but a little rougher ; attached by the side to a stick or 

 any neighbouring object. The eggs are laid in dense masses around a twig of tlie 

 food-plant quite in the manner of E. lanestris or CUsiocampa neustria.^ 



Henucha Delegorgui, Bdv. — " This specimen was found at Libodi in very wet 

 and cold weather ; and it looked so like a withered leaf blown to the way-side that 

 it is a wonder it was not trodden upon ; indeed, Edward seemed about to touch it 



