HENUCHA. toy 



but after the last moult becomes of a beautiful green colour, 

 with each of the segments cinctured by a black band, which is 

 adorned with a series of pink tubercles, each bearing a whorl 

 of six hairs, diverging like a star, the central one being the 

 longest. The pupa is enclosed in a flask-shaped cocoon, open 

 at the narrowed end. 



GENUS HENUCHA. 



Iloiucha, Geyer in Hiibner's Samml. Exot Schmett., iii., 

 1)1. I (1S37?); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus., vi., 

 p. 1331 (1855). 



The type of this genus is a very rare and beautiful South 

 African moth, of moderate size, and with rounded wings. It 

 is not congeneric with the commoner species associated with it 

 by Walker, which have longer and less rounded wings ; but 

 it is not worth while to attempt to characterise the genus in 

 detail from Geyer's figure of the female. 



HENUCHA GRIMMIA. 



{Plate CXXL, Fig. 3.) 



Henucha grimniia, Geyer in Hiibner's Samml. Exot. Schmett., 

 iii., pi. I (1S37?); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. ]\Ius., 

 vi., p. 1332, no. I (1855). 



This, an exceedingly scarce moth, is only known to me by 

 Geyer's figures of the female, one of which is copied on our 

 plate. It measures nearly three inches across the wings, 

 which, as well as the body, are black, thickly dusted with 

 white, the moderately pectinated antennae, abdomen, and 

 under surface of the wings inclining to reddish-brown. There 

 is a slender white collar in front of the thorax, and the body is 

 moderately stout, and nearly as long as the hind-wings. The 



