62 INSECT A TRANSVAALIENSIA. 



Cirina carta, Feld. Reise d. Novara, Lepid. iv. tab. Ixxxviii. fig. 3 (1874). 



China forda, Kirby, Syu. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. p. 763 (1892) ; Rothscb. Novitates Zool. vol. ii. p. 44 (1895); 

 Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xix. p. 391 (1897). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant), Barberton (Rendall). — The species was originally described 

 from Natal, and is probably widely distributed throughout South-east Africa. 



I have not figured this species, as it is closely allied to the following one (C. similis, 

 Tab. III., figs. 1 and 2), from which it is separable by the smaller size of both sexes, and by 

 the females having the posterior margins of the hind wings distinctly angulated. 



19. Cirina similis. (Tab. III., fig. 1 5^ , 2 ? ). 



Cirina similis, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xix. p. 393 (1897). 

 Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant). — Gambia (Brit. Mus.). 



Genus PSEUDAPHELIA. 



Aphelia, Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1849, p. 61, nom. prmocc. 

 Pseudaplielia, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. p. 771 (1892). 



This genus contains only one species, a well-known day-flying Moth in Natal. 

 20. Pseudaphelia apollinaris. (Tab. V., fig. 7.) 



Satuniia apollinaris, Boisduval, in Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 601 (1847) ; Guer. in Lefevre, Voy. 



Abyss, vi. p. 390 (1849). 

 Saturnia {Aphelia) apollinaris, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1849, p. 61. 

 Aphelia apollinaris, Walk. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mns. vi. p. 1320, u. 1 (1855) ; Wallengr. Bihang 



Svensk. Akad. Handl. (2) Baud v. No. 4, p. 24 (1865). 

 Botiibyx balamal, Gu6r. in Lefevre, Voy. Abyss. Atlas, tab. xii. figs. 3, 4 (1847). 

 Heniocha paleacea, Herr.-Schitff. Ausser-europ. Schmett. i. fig. 308 (1855). 

 Pseudaphelia apollinaris, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. p. 771 (1892). 

 Larva and Pupa. — Pseudaphelia apollinaris, Fawcett, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol. xv. pt. vi. p. 305, pi. xlvii. 



figs. 11, 12 (1901). 



Col. Fawcett thus describes the larva :— " Ground colour bluish grey, each somite ivith a broad 

 transverse indented black streak, thickest on second somite, and two finer black transverse lines across the upper 

 part of the body between the somites. Body broader in the middle than anteriorly or posteriorly. Above anal 

 extremity a sharp-pointed black horn — a fine black spiracular line, and immediately below it a broad raised 

 ferruginous line bearing a small black tubercle crowned with some short yellow hairs on each somite. Under 

 surface and abdominal claspers pale yellow. Head, thoracic legs, and anal claspers black. A tuft of short 

 hairs on the summit of the 2nd somite." 



Hab.— Transvaal ; Shilouvane in Zoutpansberg (Junod, Pret. Mus. and Coll. Dist.). — Widely 

 distributed from Natal to Abyssinia. 



Larva in Natal feeds on Jurrea heterophijUa, and undergoes its transformation under- 

 ground. Period passed in pupa condition (in March) was seventeen days (Fawcett). 



Colonel Bowker had taken the Butterfly Salamis anacardii in cop. with this Moth at 

 Umgeni Hill in Natal.* 



* Proc. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. xxiii. 



