39<5 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



■which I captured consisted almost entirely of specimens with either obsolete 

 or very small ocelli. 



Additional locality of M. Safitza in Eastern Districts of Cape Colony : — 

 Tharfield, Kleinemond River {Miss M. L. Bowker). 



Additional locality of M. perspiaia in Transvaal : — Eureka, near Barberton 

 (a. F. Palmer). 



Mclanitis diversa, p. i 1 6. 



Fig. of ?, Gnojiliodes Parmeno, Stand., Exot. Schmett. pi. 78 (1886). 



Lethe Indosa, p. 121, 



Fig. of $ , Lethe dendrophihis, var. albo-maculatus, Staud., Exot. Schmett., 

 pi. 78 (1886). 



Additional localities : — Coast Districts of Natal : Umzinto (/. //. Bowlcer). 

 Zululand : Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachdl). 



Mencris Tulhaghia, p. 125. 



Fig. of ?, Staud., Exot. Schmett., pi. 57 (1885). 

 Larva and Pupa, p. 127. 



I found a full-grown larva of this species at Rondebosch, near Cape Town, 

 on the 19th November 1885, and append the following description of it, viz. : — 



Ochre-yellow, with a broad conspicuous median dorsal blackish stripe, 

 narrowing toward tail ; on each side a supra-spiracular waved rather indistinct 

 "waved dusky-grey stripe ; spiracles ringed with blackish ; all the legs and the 

 under surface of a very much paler and duller ochre-yellow. Head dark-red, 

 set sparsely but generally witli short stiff black bristles; body generally (includ- 

 ing legs and two short acute hindward-pointing projections at tail) set sparsely 

 with short whitish bristles, — those on the body planted in regular successive 

 transverse lines, which are closer together on the hinder part of each segment. 



Rather broad and flattened dorsally, tapering gradually toward the tail 

 from the tenth segment ; head globose, — the next adjoining segment somewhat 

 constricted. Length, 2} inches.^ 



Tins exceedingly sluggish larva was resting near the top of a wooden fence 

 (on which I had previously discovered two pupae) ; it seemed about to pupate, 

 but did not do so until the 25th November. The butterfly (a $ ) emerged on 

 26th December. 



The fence in question divided a public road from a piece of ground bare 

 of vegetation in the immediate neighbourhood of the fence, except for a bank 

 recently planted with the " Kweek " grass {Stenotapltrum glahrum), — the plant 

 mentioned in the text as conjectured to be a food-plant of Tulbaghia. Long 

 and careful search on this bank, however, failed to produce another larva. 



The following description of the pupa is made from three specimens, viz., 

 the two found suspended on the fence on 14th and 19th November respec- 

 tively, and that of which the larva pupated on 25 th November. 



Pale sandy-yellowish, witli a generally-distributed pinkish-white bloom ; 

 semi-transparent ; wing-cases very finely and indistinctly striolated with short 

 grey lines. Numerous small spots and dots of black, of which the following 

 are the principal, viz., a median longitudinal dorsal abdominal scries, of which 



' It remains to be seen whether the larva varies irregularly or sexually, or perhaps 

 locally, as regards green or ochre-yellow colouring. Mrs. Barber mentions that her pale- 

 green larva was much yellower in a younger stage, and certainly all the young ones hatched 

 from the eggs laid by the Cape Town 9 mentioned in the text were sandy-yellowish. 



