TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



For the Year 1909. 



I. On the Larvae q/" Hamanumida daedalus, Fab., Hoplitis 

 phyllocampa, n. sp., and Eulophonotus myrmeleon, 

 Feld. ; loith descriptions of the Imagines of the two 

 Heterocera. By Roland Trimen, MA., F.R.S. 



[Read October 7tl), 1908.] 



Plate I. 



I OWE to the kindness of my friend and correspondent 

 for many years, Mr. Alfred D. Millar, of Durban, Natal, 

 the interesting lepidopterous material here dealt with. 



The hitherto unrecorded larva and the ^ imago of the 

 little known Cossid moth Eidofhonotus myrmeleon were 

 discovered by Mr. A. 1). Millar himself at Durban ; the 

 ^ imago being so strikingly dissimilar from the % in its 

 very small size and perfectly transparent wings that, 

 unless they had been taken paired, it may well be doubted 

 whether even a practised lepidopterist would have discerned 

 them to be the sexes of the same species. 



The other two larvae here described, viz. : those of 

 Hamamimida daedahts and of Hoplitis phi jllocampa., n. sp., 

 are the discoveries, at Malvern, near Durban, of Mr. H. M. 

 Millar, brother of Mr. A. D. Millar, and aro of hisrh 

 interest as exhibiting — each in quite different fashion — 

 a close protective resemblance to the leaves of their 

 common food-plant. The concealment afforded by this 

 resemblance may perhaps account in part for the long 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1909. — PART I. (MAY) B 



