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round itself with its hairs on the side of the box " ; and Miss Barrett, from observations at 

 Umtata, describes the cocoons of this species as " very pretty, ornamented with pieces of the 

 leaves of the lilac," the plant on which these larvae fed.* 



Subfam. SPHINGICAMPIN.E. 



Sphingicampidw, Packard, ' Psyche,' vol. ix. p. 280 (1901). 



We have already referred to the characters relied on for this subfamily (as we regard it) 

 by Packard {ante, p. 50), and which to us represents a division of the family Saturniidse, 

 known principally by the subterranean and chrysalid nature of the pupation. 



Chrysalids of several species belonging to this subfamily have been sent to Europe, from 

 which imagines have safely emerged. In the spring of 1886 Wailly received chrysalids of 

 Gynanisa isis, Angelica tyrrhea, and Btinaa alcinoe, from which some thirty-six Moths 

 emerged between July 1st and October 19th. f 



Genus NUDAURELIA. 



Nudaurelia, Eothscbild, Novitates Zool. vol. ii. p. 41 (1895) ; South. Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Sole 

 (3= fascic), p. 7 (1901).J 



Sonthonnax enumerates twenty species under this genus ; one of these, however, 

 described by myself as Antherea hraetcata, I have removed to the genus Ginahra. It is purely 

 Ethiopian in distribution. 



4. Nudaurelia arabella. (Tab. III., fig. 6.) 



Antheraa Arabella, Aurivillius, Eutomol. Tidskrift, 1893, p. 203 ; Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xix. 



p. 390 (1897). 

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



Soie (3^ fascic), p. 8, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1901). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant), Johannesburg (Cregoe), Middelburg. — Orange River Colony; 

 Natal ; Kaffraria. 



Miss Barrett has described a larva of this species found at Libodi, Transkei, just before 

 pupating. It "was quite smooth, without hairs or spikes," and was "a very ugly, heavy, 

 earthy-looking caterpillar with a thick ridge across every segment." § 



I only took two specimens of this species during my stay at Pretoria. The first 

 one I captured at breakfast time in the Church Square, a belated reveller overtaken by 

 daylight. The most I saw were at Middelburg, impaled on the walls of the office of the then 

 station-master, an individual who, from his manners, would apparently have enjoyed the 

 impalement of " Engelschman " passengers as well. 



* ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' 1901, p. 191. f ' Entomologist,' xxix. pp. 354-5 (1896). 



I This work forms part of the tenth volume of Annales du Laboratoire de la Soie,' published at Lyon. The separate 

 Essai is, however, only available to me, and I therefore use its pagination. 



§ ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' vol. sxxvii. p. 193. 



