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near its transformation is, to use Lewin's words, of considerable 

 bulk, very showy, and in general a great devourer. He found 

 it to pupate in February, spinning on the surface of the ground 

 a slight cocoon, and collecting about it fragments of earth 

 and leaves in order to disguise it. It emerged in March, after 

 being in the dormant state for thirty-six days. 



GENUS BRAURA, 

 Braura, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxxii. p. 464 

 (1865). 

 This genus is not unlike the last. The antennoe are short, 

 stout, and serrated. The body is very stout and woolly, and 

 the head is tufted in front. The proboscis is obsolete, and the 

 stout hairy palpi extend a little beyond the head. The wings 

 are long, with the fore-wings rather pointed. The legs are 

 short and stout, and are very thickly clothed with hair ; the 

 abdomen is woolly, and extends considerably beyond the 

 hind-wings. 



BRAURA LIGNICLUSA. 

 {^PlaUXCV. Fig. 4.) 

 Braura lignldusa, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. ]\Ius. xxxii. 

 p. 464 (1865). 

 This Moth is found in Natal, and measures about lYz 

 inches across the wings. 



" J/c7/^.— Reddish-brown. Thorax with a black stripe and 

 with two oblique black streaks: pale fawn-colour in front. 

 Abdomen reddish. Pectus, abdomen beneath, and legs, 

 blackish. Fore-wings tinged with cinereous on the hinder 

 part ; a broad fawn-coloured sub-costal stripe, which extends 

 from the base to two-thirds of the length, has a very long and 

 acute notch on its hind side, and is tridentate at its tip ; a 

 cinereous black-bordered line of the same hue ; marginal line 

 cinereous, bordered with black on both sides ; fringe fawn- 



