58 INSECT A TRANSVAALIENSIA. 



only sixteen species ; Sonthonnax now brings the number up to twenty-six. I can only 

 enumerate two species from the Transvaal. 



9. Bunsea tyrrhena. (Tab. VI., fig. 1.) 



Satwnin Tyrrhena, Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. 1849, p. 51, pi. viii. fig. 1. 



BuntFd tijrrliena, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroe. p. 752 (1892) ; Rothscb. Novitates Zool. vol. ii. p. 39, u. 5 



(1895); South. Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Sole (3"^ fascic), p. 30, pi. xviii. f. 2 (1901) ; Karsch, 



Berlin. Ent. Zeitscbr. xxxvii. p. 497 (1892). 

 Var. Hunaa catuchroa, Karsch, Berlin. Ent. Zeitscbr. xxxvii. p. 497, pi. xx. fig. 4 (1893) ; subsp. catochra, 



Kotbsch. Novitates Zool. vol. ii. p. 39, n. 5 (1895). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Barberton (Pret. Mus. and Coll. Dist.). — An apparently common species in Natal, 

 whence I have received several specimens collected at Durban by Mr. A. Boss. It is also recorded from 

 West Africa (Cameroons— Karsch). 



Larva feeds on Grumilea capensis at Durban (A. Ross, m litt.). 

 ,1 10. Bunaea alcinoe. (Tab. IV., fig. 7.) 



Attacus alchwe, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. t. 322, A, B (1780). 



Attactts eajf'raria, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. xxxi. fig. 2 (1791). 



Buiiaa cafra, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 154, n. 1608 ( 1822 ?) ; Westw. Ang. Kaff. 111. pi. xxx. fig. 15 (1849). 



Buiiaa alcinoe, Walk. Cat. Lepid. Heteroe. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1228, n. 1 (1855) ; Sontb. Ess. Classif. Lepid. 



product, de Sole (8" fascic), p. 43 (1901). 

 Bunaa anyiisana, Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hisi. (6) vol. six. pp. 390 and 391 (1897). 

 Larva. — BuntBa caffraria, Bairstow, ' The Naturalist,' vol. ix. p. 136, pi. viii. fig. 2 (1884) ; Fawcett, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. Lond. vol. xv. pt. vi. p. 303, pi. xlvii. fig. 8 (1901). 



"Ground colour deep velvety black ; each somite, from 4th to 12th, becaing eight yellow tubercular 

 processes, two sididorsally, two laterally, and four (in two rows) on each side sidjsjnracularly . The 2nd somite 

 bears four black processes, two subdorsally and two laterally ; the 3rd somite bears four black processes, as in 

 the 2nd, and two small yellow processes on each side, in line with the xubspiracular processes on the other 

 somites. Spiracles red; those on the 4th to 11th somites being surrounded by an irregularly shaped red area. 

 Head and legs concolm-ous with body " (Fawcett). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant), Johannesburg (Cregoe). — I have also received it from Natal 

 (Spiller), Durban (Ross), Delagoa Bay (Junod). Sonthonnax records it from Madagascar. 



The food-plants of the larva have been thus described : — At Johannesburg, the cabbage 

 tree, " Kipper sol " of the Dutch (A. Eoss, m litt.) ; in Natal, at Durban, Ccltis kraussiana and 

 Ekebergia meycri (Quekett) ; at and near Maritzburg, a species of Cussonia (Fawcett) ; at 

 Delagoa Bay, the Psekamafoura and Nyamari (Junod *). 



In previously writing f that the dark form (here figured) was the common one in the 

 Transvaal, especially at Pretoria, I applied the name angasana to it, having mistaken the 

 figure in Angas's ' Kaffirs,' and having in mind the opinion of Rothschild that this was a 

 variety of the species. J: As far as I am aware, the typical B. angasana has not been discovered 

 in the Transvaal, but the paler typical form of B. alcinoe has now been received from that 

 Colony. 



* Bull. Soc. Neuchatel Sci. Nat. xxvii. p. 241 (1899). f Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xix. p. 391 (1897). 



J ' Novitates ZoologiciE,' vol. ii. p. 39 (1895). 



