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Larva grocu or reddish brown. We liavc foni' stao-es of tlio larva of 

 X. accentifera from Mr. Leigli, Durban. 



First stage (one specimen) : green, a reddish shade from liorn to thorax ; 

 fading away in front ; born black, paler towards end. Head large ; thoracic 

 segment not smaller than following ; five bristles : two dorso-lateral, one above 

 stigma, two ventro-lateral ; horn about half the length of the body, curved 

 upwards, densely hairy, sinuate at tip, each angle with a stout bristle. 



Second stage (one sjiecimen) : head large, thoracic segments somewhat smaller 

 than the following ones ; horn reduced in length, densely tnberculated, n'ddisii, 

 tip pale, sinuate ; upperside greenish, rest of body reddish ; head pale frontally, 

 with a jiale lateral line ; a pale line from horn to eighth segment, widening 

 behind ; densely covered with pale dots. 



Third stage (one s})ecimen) : pale-dotted, reddish ; pro- and mesothorax 

 small, metathorax enlarged ; a dark dorso-mesial line ; jiale line from horn 

 frontad bordered by deeper red above and below, triangularly widening behind, 

 a pale oblique side-stripe over segments 4 and 5 ; horn curving upwards, obtusely 

 ])ointed, granulose. 



Fourth stage (two s])ecimens, one green, one brown) : strongly tapering from 

 fourth segment frontad ; ]>ale-dotted ; markings as before ; horn stout, G mm. long, 

 depressed, somewhat i/i-shaped, of even width, suddenly narrowed at end to a short 

 point (which is dorsal), tubercles numerous but small. 



The larvae of the Oriental si)ecies are very close to that here described. — 

 Food-plant : Carissa (in India). 



Pupa long, pale l)rown ; spiracles, an interrupted mesial line above and below, 

 cremaster and a series of ventro-lateral abdominal spots brown ; glossy ; tongue- 

 case projecting forward, com]>ressed, the fi-ontal part (from eye onwards) about 

 twice as long as the head vertically high, no ventral carina ; labrum flat ; clypens 

 convex ; abdomen densely rugate-punctate above, more dis])ersedly punctured 

 beneath ; praespiracular area of fourth and fifth somites rough with short carinae, 

 corresponding to the raised anterior edges of the umbilicate punctures of the 

 following segments ; cremaster short, broadly triangular, rugate, ending in two 

 strong points which curve upwards. 



IJal). Aethiopian and Oriental Region. 



Fifteen species, two Oriental, the others Aethiopian. 



Most of the species resemble each other closely in jiattern. The antemedian 

 and discal lines of the forewing are disposed as in most Macrof/lossHtn. Nearly all 

 the species occur in two forms, one with, one without white spot or spots on the 

 forewing. Owing to the variation in these spots, the absence, in some species, 

 of very striking distinguishing characters in pattern, and the great similarity, 

 or practically identity, in the sexual armature, the determination of the species 

 presents great difliculties. 



The forms with the white sjiots develoj^ed are the easiest to discriminate, and 

 we advise the reader who is trying to name some obscure species of Bephelc to 

 liegin with spotted individuals, and then compare the not spotted ones with 

 them. 



The variously formed stigma of the forewing is derived from four white dots ; 

 tlie development of tiiese in s( me species is illustrated on V\. LXV. Dot 1 is 

 situated in the cell upon the Ibid corresjionding to K-, dot 2 at upper angle of cell 

 upon D'-, dot 3 at lower angle of cell upon D^ and dot 4 at W outside cell ; in tiie 



