LYC^NID.E. 2 1 5 



and so does D. saga, as I learn from M. Pc'ringuey, who discovered 

 the latter in the Hex River Mountains of the Cape Colony. D. limlaia 

 is stated by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson to be similarly attached to stones 

 on the hills of the interior of Natal ; but Aslauga was found by Colonel 

 Bowker to frequent dry branches and twigs. 



D. AmaJcosa has a wide range over Eastern South Africa, but is 

 not known to have occurred west of Grahamstown. The Hex River 

 Mountains, in the west of the Cape Colony, are the only recorded loca- 

 lity for D. saga ; and D. limhata appears to be peculiar to Upper Natal, 

 while Aslauga is limited to the coast of that Colon3^ 



It is worthy of note that the larva departs widely from the ordinary 

 onisciform Lyceenide type, and that both it and the pupa are very 

 hairv. 



228. (1.) D'Urbania Amakosa, Trimen. 



(? 9 D'Urhania Amahosa, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., i. 

 p. 401 (1862); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 283, pi. 5, fF. 4, 5 

 (1866). 



Ex}-). al., {$) I in. 1-4 liu. ; (!^) i in. 5-9 lin. 



Darh-brown, inclining to fuscous ; each wing with a suhnarginal, 

 C2irvcd, transverse row of oravge-yelloiv spots. 



$ Fore-unng : row of six spots, forming almost a semicircle, ex- 

 tending from subcostal to submedian nervure, — sometimes indistinct!}^ 

 marked. Hijul-tuing : somewhat paler than fore-wing ; only four spots 

 in transverse row, which is not markedly curved, extending from second 

 subcostal to third median nervule. Cilia of both wings conspicuously 

 chequered brown and white. Under side. — Forc-iving : Infore trans- 

 verse row of spots rather thinlg, beyond it thicldg, irroratcd with whitish ; 

 row of orange spots increased to a broad macular stripe, narrowly edged 

 with black on each side ; the irrorations immediately succeeding stripe 

 forming a series of acute, rather indistinct lunules. Hind-itmig : uni- 

 versally and densely irroratcd with whitish ; the position of the transverse 

 row of upper side faintly indicated by some scarcely distinguishable 

 whitish spots, followed by some indistinct fuscous lunules. Cilia not 

 so conspicuously chequered as above. 



$ Orange spots in both wings enlarged^ and confluent, forming a 

 broad band, which in fore- wing widens at its lower extremity. Cilia 

 as in ^. Under side. — Quite similar to that of $ ; orange band of 

 fore- wing paler than on upper side. 



Both sexes are exceedingly variable as regards the orange markings. 

 The typical examples from near King William's Town and others from 

 Kaffraria Proper have these markings in their least developed condition, 

 and in the $ especially the spots are always very small, and some of 

 them occasionally obsolete. Examples from the Natal Coast and the 



