92 INSECT A TRANSVAALIENSIA. 



Hab. — Transvaal ; Pretoria (Distant, Zutrzenka, and Pret. Mus.)- — Probably distributed throughout 

 South-east Africa. — British East Africa (Betton). 



Always a scarce species; I have only seen three specimens from Pretoria, as detailed 

 above. 



10. Antheua spurcata. (Tab. VIII., fig. 10.) 



Antheua sjmrcata, "Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. xxxi. p. 298 (1864). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Coll. Dist.), Barberton (Eendall). — West Africa; Sierra Leone. 



11. Antheua tricolor, var. (Tab. VIII., fig. 13.) 



Antheua tricolor, Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 688 (1855) ; Feld. Reise d. Novara, Lepid. 



iv. pi. xciv. fig. 7 (1874). 

 Antheua varia, Walk. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 766 (1855). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Waterval-onder (Pioss). — Natal. 



12. Antheua consanguinea, sp. n. (Tab. VIII., fig. 12.) 



Female. Head and pronotum pale ochraceous, tinged with fulvous ; abdomen above brownish 

 ochraceous with a double series of lateral marginal spots, the innermost piceous, the outermost, scarcely 

 seen from above, shining black ; sternum, legs, and abdomen beneath pale ochraceous ; anterior wings 

 primrose-yellow, with two basal fused spots, a three-angulated longitudinal spot beneath apical area of 

 cell, costal margin, and outer fringe, both very narrowly, pale i)urplish brown ; posterior wings pale 

 purplish brown, the fringe and basal area primrose-yellow ; wings beneath very pale ochraceous, and 

 almost unicolorous. 



Exp. wings, 45 millim. 



Hab. — Transvaal ; Lydenburg District (Krantz). 



Allied to the eastern species, A. servula, Drury, found throughout British India and Java. 



Genus CEKUKA. 



Cerura, Scbrank, Fauna Boica, ii. 2 Abth. p. 155 (1802) ; Hamps. Fauna Brit. India, Moths, vol. i. p. 155 



(1892) ; Pack. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. vii. p. 263 (1895). 

 Harpyia, Ochsenh. Eur. Scbmett. iii. p. 19 (1810) ; Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, ii. p. 108 (1883). 



A large and widely distributed genus. Found in North America ; distributed throughout 

 Europe to China and Japan ; found in India and Ceylon ; Australia ; Algeria in North Africa ; 

 and now recorded from the Transvaal in South Africa. 



Some species of Cerura have a very disguised appearance vi^hen at rest. Of the British 

 species, C. furcula, Mr. Barrett writes : " In the daytime it sits on the trunk, or more usually 

 on a branch of one of its food-trees, its outstretched downy legs and grey markings giving it 

 a most deceptive likeness to an entangled downy feather, or even a more close resemblance to 

 a ripe sallow catkin from YNfMch the downy seeds are bursting." * The larva of another 

 species found in Britain, C. vinula, can " squirt a fluid — formic acid — when handled." f 



Of these peculiar larvte, Packard has remarked, they "have varied in the direction of the 

 enlargement of the prothoracic segment to form a sort of hood to admit the head, serving to 



-■- 'The Lepidoptera of the British Islands,' vol. iii. p. 89. 



f Prof. Poulton has most elaborately described the organs which emit, and the method of emission. (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1887, p. 295.) 



