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Sonthonnax has placed several species together as varieties, or local races of N. dione, 

 Fabr. I have kept the present form distinct, as it is apparently, or at least to the present 

 time, the only one known from the Transvaal, and is there exceedingly scarce, being only 

 received from the more northern and warmer parts of that colony. 



7. Nudaurelia arata. (Tab. VII., fig. 1.) 



Sntnrnia nrata, Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1849, p. 41, pi. vii. fig. 2. 



Anthercea arata, Maass. & Weym. Beitr. Scbmett. iv. fig. 59 (1851); Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xix. 



p. 390 (1897). 

 Nudaurelia arata, Rothsch. Novitates Zool. vol. ii. p. 43 (1895) ; Sonth. Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Soie 



(3" fascic), p. 23, pi. ix. fig. 1 (1901). 

 Larva and PvvA.—Anthona arata, VV.W. Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. iv. n. s. part iii. pi. xiv. figs. 1,1a (1856). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Barberton (Harrison), — Also found in Natal, and recorded from Equatorial and 



West Africa. 



The figures of the larva and pupa given by Mr. Saunders were from drawings made by 

 Mr. R. W. Plant, of Natal. 



The only specimen of this species I brought from the Transvaal was given me by 

 Mr. Harrison, who picked it up dead in his garden. Mr. Harrison had lived very many years 

 at Barberton, and had never seen another specimen. 



Y~8. Nudaurelia belina. (Tab. VI., fig. 4.) 



Saturnia Belina, Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1849, p. 41, pi. viii. fig. 2. 



Anthercea Belina, Walk. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. p. 1241, n. 2 (1855) ; Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 



vol. xix. pp. 390 and 392 (1897). 

 Nudaurelia belina, Rothsch. Novitates Zool. vol. ii. p. 43 (1895); Sonth. Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Soie 



(3" fascic), p. 24, pi. ix. figs. 2 and 3 (1901). 

 Larva. — Bunaa Belina, Junod, Bull. Soc. Neuchat. Sci. Nat. xxvii. p. 241 (1899). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant), L5'denburg District (Kranz; Pret. Mus.). — Eecorded also 

 from Natal, Zululand, and Delagoa Bay; found by Mr. Muir at Mozambique. Probably generally 

 distributed throughout South-east and Equatorial Africa. 



Larva feeds on a tree called Alpesou at Delagoa Bay (Junod). On Sclerocarya caffra, wild 

 mango, at Durban (A. Ross). 



I found this a common species around the electric lamps at Pretoria. It is also a 

 variable species, and varies in a similar manner to N. cytherea, as already detailed.* 



Genus BUNiEA. 



Bunma, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 154(1822?); Walk. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1226 



(1855); Sonth. Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Soie (3" fascic), p. 27 (1901). 

 Thyella, Wallengr. Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xv. p. 141 (1858). 



A somewhat large genus, entirely Ethiopian in distribution. Kirby, in his ' Catalogue ' 

 (1892), enumerated twenty-five species; Rothschild (1895) revises and reduces the genus to 



* On one variety I wrote : " This cannot be considered a seasonal form, having been taken at Pretoria in November, 

 and the normal form of the species on the 30th October" (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xix. p. 392). Mon. Sonthonnax 

 appears to have misunderstood this remark, as he writes : " Cette espeoe se transforms sans tisser de coques soyeuses, d'apres 

 M. Distant, et n'est pas rare il Pretoria il'octobre il novembre " (Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Soie (3"= fascic), p. 25). 



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