54 INSECTA TRANSVAALIENSIA. 



This genus contains but few species ; one found in the Transvaal and elsewhere, one in 

 Abyssinia, the others in West Africa. 



^ 2. Epiphora mythimnia. (Tab. V., fig. 3.) 



Saturnia mytldmnia , Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1849, p. 40, pi. viii. fig. 3. 



Attacus mythimna. Walk. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1216, n. 14 (1855). 



Epiphora scribonia, Wallengr. Bihang Svensk. Akad. Handl. (2), Band v. No. 4, p. 26 (1865). 



Epiphora mythimnia, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. p. 749 (1892); Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), 



vol. xix. p. 890 (1897) ; Dusuz. & Sontli. Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Sole (prem. fascic), p. 26, 



pi. vi. fig. 3 (1897). 

 Lakva and Vvvk.—AUacui> mythimna, W. W. Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. iv. n. s. part iii. pi. xiii. 



figs. 3, a, b (1856). 



Hab.— Transvaal ; Barberton (Harrison & Eendall).— Found in Natal, and probably throughout the 

 whole of South-east Africa. 



The figures of the larva and cocoon contributed by Mr. Saunders were from drawings 

 made by Mr. E. W. Plant, of Natal. 



Larva at Delagoa Bay feeds on a tree called Psckamafoura (Junod). 



Genus LUDIA. 



Ludia, Wallengren, Bihang Svensk. Akad. Handl. (2), Band v. No. 4, p. 25 (1865). 



A small genus ; one species found in the Transvaal ; a second, described by Hampson, 

 from East Africa ; three described by Aurivillius and Karsch from the Cameroons ; and one 

 by Felder from Bogos, Abyssinia. 



V 3. Ludia delegorguei. (Tab. V., fig. 8.) 



Saturnia JeUyoryiifi, Boisduval, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 601 (1847). 



SaUirnia (Henueha?) delegorguei, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1849, p. 59, pi. x. fig. 4. 



Henucha delegorguei. Walk. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 1332 (1855) ; Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 



1888, p. 84. 

 Ludia delegorguei, Wallengr. Bihang Svensk. Akad. Handl. (2), Band v. No. 4, p. 25 (1865). 

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



Hab.— Transvaal ; Johannesburg (Hyde). — Found largely throughout South and South-east Africa ; 

 I have specimens from Grahamstown (Schonland) and Natal (Spiller). Emiu Pasha found it at Monbuttu 

 in Equatorial Africa. 



Caterpillar feeds at Delagoa Bay on a tree called Mpachla (Junod). Mrs. Monteiro 

 describes the larva, observed at the same locality, as cream-white, covered with long coarse 

 white hair.* 



Mrs. Monteiro states that she found her first specimen of this larva on a " tree-trunk just 

 as he was pulhug down the last bit of bark over himself preparatory to his change. He 

 was violent when I disturbed him, but completed his bark covering on the way home." 

 Col. Fawcett describes the larva of another species which he included in this genus as L. 

 smi/rt.T, Westw., but for which the genus Bolocera was founded by Felder, as forming "a cocoon 



* ' Delagoa Bay,' p. 197. 



