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IN SECT A TKANSVAALIENSIA. 





the Zoological Society's 

 Gardens, in Regent's Park, 

 where they remained 

 under careful attention 

 until about the middle of 

 March, when about two 

 hundred and fifty Moths 

 had emerged from the 

 large cocoon ; the first on 

 December 3rd, the last on 

 February 14th. The dead 

 leaves attached to the nest 

 enabled the identification 

 of the food-plant to be 

 made as Bridelia micrantha, 

 Baillon. The larvse did 

 not finally enclose them- 

 selves in the large cocoon 

 until about a fortnight after 

 they reached the Insec- 

 tarium, so that they must 

 have been about fifty days 

 without food. The emer- 

 gence of the Moths was also 

 followed by the appearance 

 of a number of dipterous 

 parasites, which were 

 stated to be closely allied 

 to Tachina onchestus, Walk. 



Fig. 9. — Enveloping Cocoon oi Annphc 2'auda: b, inside view; a, outside. 

 About half natural size.— From the Trans. Linn. Soo. Loud.* 



5. Anaphe reticulata. (Tab. VIII., fig. 6.) 



Anaphe reticulata, Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 856 (1855) ; Walsingh. Trans. Linn. Soc. 



Loud. (2) ii. p. 422 (1885) ; Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xx. p. 204 (1897). 

 Arctiomorpha euprepimformis, Herr.Schaff. Aussereurop. Sclimett. fig. 434 (1856). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant), Johannesburg (Ross and Cregoe). — Originally described 

 from Natal specimens. 



I found this species on wing at Pretoria in the months of November and December. It 

 is not uncommon, and comes freely to the electric lights. 



* For the permission to reproduce these figures, I am indebted to the Council of the Linnean Society and to 

 Lord Walsingham. 



