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Forc-iving : a dull whitish space on middle of inner margin, ill defined 

 on its edges, rising slightly above first median nervule. Hind-wing : a 

 hroad, even, transverse imrc ivhite hand from costa to siibmedian nervure, 

 where it narrows, and is abruptly and widely interrupted, ending in a 

 separate elongate white spot close to inner margin beyond middle. 

 Cilia on both sides grey, but orange-yclloiu on lobe of anal angle. 



Head above ashy-grey, with an ochreous-yellow spot on each side 

 between eye and base of antenna ; palpi with terminal joint wholly 

 black, but with middle joint above black-tipped with ochreous-yellow, 

 — beneath ochreous-yellow, with a conspicuous outer black longitudinal 

 streak; antennce black. Thorax above ashy-grey mixed with greenish ; 

 collar edged anteriorly with an orange-yellow line ; beneath ashy-grey, 

 except mesially in front, where it is orange-yellow ; legs fuscous, the 

 cox£e, femora, and tibios with long dense tufts of orange-yellow hair, 

 the latter (and also the fore-tarsi) more or less striped longitudinally 

 with creamy-yellow in front. Abdomen above dark-grey with wdiitish, 

 laterally and inferiorly black with white, segmental rings ; a median 

 longitudinal ochre-yellow stripe beneath. 



$ like $, but the ground-colour rather darker. 



Larva. — " Pale-yellow, with purplish or crimson transverse bands. 

 Head brick-red or yellowish, with two frontal rows of black spots — the 

 upper row of six, the lower of five ; mandibles black. Each segment 

 wnth a deep crimson or purplish transverse median band ; the yellow 

 ground between these bands crossed by two narrow streaks of the same 

 colour. Anal segment with three somewhat angulated black marks. 

 Above spiracles a series of rather elevated yellowish spots. Legs 

 black ; pro-legs deep yellow or orange. 



" About an inch in length, but variable in size. Feeds on Bobinia 

 liscud-acacia (and probably on Erijthrina caffra), fastening the pinnae 

 of a leaf together with silk and feeding in the shelter thus formed." — 

 J. P. Mansel Weale, in epist. 



Plate II. fig. 6. 



Pupa. — Pale greyish-green, covered with a dense chalky-white 

 efflorescence ; first three dorsal segmental incisions of abdomen yellow. 

 Under surface with nine small black spots, viz., one on each eye-case, 

 one (rather smaller) on middle line of haustellum, two (not so widely 

 apart as those on eyes) on middle pair of legs, two (very minute) on 

 third pair of legs, not so widely apart as the two preceding them, and 

 two (larger than the rest and sub-rhomboidal) on wing-covers, a little 

 more widely apart than those on eyes. Spiracles linear, black. Head 

 with an acute, median, superior, small, short, slender black projection ; 

 a similar projection, rather dorsal than lateral, on each side of collar of 

 thorax, and a little below it, on shoulder, three black dots arranged 

 triangularly. Anal projection blackish. 



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