218 Some undescribed caterpillars. 
by a dorsal stalk, the thoracical girth is stalked dorsally as well so that 
the pupa is hung up abdomen downwards. 
The butterfly emerged on the 23rd. of November and was a female. 
Pupa-stage 14 days. 
khopalocampta keithloa Wligrn. 
Two full-grown caterpillars of this species were causht in the Park 
at Durban in November 07. At first look I mistook them for the larvae 
of Rhopal. forestan Cram. but the markings of the head not agreeing 
with the description of R. Trimen, I thought it better to describe the 
caterpillar and to breed the specimens for surety’s sake. 
Caterpillar: The larva is elongated, contracted on first segment; 
head large, heart-shaped, rounded inferiorly; the depression in the middle 
of its upperedge forming a slisht groove down the middle of the face; 
colour orange with two horizontal rows of purplish-brown spots, 4 in 
the superior and 5 in the inferior one. Ground-colour of body yellow, first 
somite entirely brown, the others with a wide transverse purplish-brown 
band in front and with one narrower one in 2nd. and 3rd. somite but with 
two in all the rest, a dorsal orange blot on these narrow bands of the 
4th. and following spaces between the somites yellow. Thesepurplish-browu 
bands extend laterally to a bright red spiracular line from 2nd. to 
12th. segment including the 12th. segment ones and are marked by a 
dorsal transverse yellow streak, further above the spiracles by an ovate 
yellow spot on both sides. True legs bright-red with yellow claws; 
claspers of the same bright-red, underside of body yellow. This yellow 
ground-colour appears green when caterpillar is feeding, the green inside 
shines through the transparent skin. Length abouth 30 mm. 
Pupa: The pupa is thick, rounded; head with short frontal pro- 
Jection; prothorax bumped posterioly; colour greenish at the beginning, 
becoming yellow afterwards and almost reddish, when butterfliy has 
emerged; covered with a chalky white bloom; spiracles black; anal 
prominence long, black, ends in two short points. 
The pupa is attached at the tail by a silken girth stalked over 
the middle of the back and a silken sling round thorax, which is stalked 
at the back and both of which are fixed to the leaf. My caterpillar when 
pupating had left its shelter and walked to a plant with smaller leaves, 
drawing 5 leaves together to form a tube for changing into a chrysalis. 
Mr. J. P. Mansel Weale states that his caterpillars pupated in a 
loose irregular web in curled leaf. My caterpillar made no web at all 
but put the leaves together by very few strong silken threads. The 
butterfly emerged at the end of November. 
Pampkila. 
Four caterpillars, 3 fullgrown and 1 in second skin were found on 
the Phoenix palm (Phoenix reclinata). They had eaten "the leaves, 
leaving only the stem. Their appearance not quite agreeing with the 
description given by R. Trimen I let follow mine here. 
The young larva died after a few days, one of the full-grown was 
preserved for my collection. 
Young stage: larva about 13 mm long; thickest in middle at 
unuated to both ends; head brown, unproportionally large, O-shaped; 
hind-claspers very long. Colour greenish-yellow with a brown dorsal and 
two whitish sub-dorsal lines. 
