4 Mr. K. Trimen on Larvae of Hamanuniida daedalus, 



I am unable to give a complete description of the pupa 

 of H. daedalus ; but from a note and some outline sketches, 

 and also an empty pupal skin, sent to me by Mr. Millar, it 

 is clear that it is considerably more slender than that of 

 Euphaedra, and quite devoid of the great widening and 

 projection laterally, as well as dorsal acuminate elevation, 

 of the 4th abdominal segment so marked in the known 

 pupae of that genus,* and reaching a far greater develop- 

 ment in the pupae of Uuthalia.i The cephalic promi- 

 nences are short but acute, and closer together than shown 

 in the figures quoted of the two genera just mentioned. 

 In profile the dorsal median outline is moderately elevated, 

 arched, and ridged on thorax and abdomen. The length 

 of the pupa-skin is 11 lines. The colouring is given by 

 Mr. Millar as " pale-green, with a creamy streak down 

 middle of back, and another round margin of wing-covers"; 

 and he also notes that the pupal state, assumed on June 

 2nd, lasted until July 10th, 1907. 



The larva was discovered at Malvern, near Durban, 

 Natal, by Mr. K. M. Millar, brother of A. D. Millar.J 



FAMILY NOTODONTIDAE. 



Genus Hoplitis, Hiibn. 

 Hoplitis fliyllocamva, n. sp. Plate I, fig. 2 (^), fig. 2a (^). 



Exf. al. 2 in. 3 lin. (one ^ , one 9 )• 



(J. Fore-wing. A moderate-sized basal patch, a rather broad 

 inner-marginal border from base to beyond middle, and a con- 

 spicuous rather broad costal border from before middle to apex, all 



* Aurivillius, I.e., t. 5, ff. 3a, 3b, pupa of E. ravnla ; &. 5, 5a, 

 pupa of E. aureola. 



t Moore, I.e., t. VI, ff. la, pupa of A. (E.) acnnthea ; 2a, pupa of 

 A. (E.) garuda. 



X In his account of Lieut. A. Schultze's collection of Lepidoptera 

 made in Camaroon, Bornu, etc., Aurivillius (Arkiv. for Zool., bd. 2, 

 n. 12, p, 7, 1905) gives a note by that observer that at Yola, on the 

 Benue Eiver, he found a young greenish-white larva with long 

 white-plumed lateral spines, that rested flat on the leaf of its food- 

 plant (" Combretaceae "), and that he thought was probably the larva 

 either of a Euphaedra or of Hamaniimida daedalus. The brief 

 description of the young larva, together with the mention of its 

 Combretaceous food-plant, incline one to the opinion that it belonged 

 to H. daedalus. 



