8 Mr. R. Tiimen on Larvae of Hamanumida daedalus, 



segments ; neither does it possess the conspicuous 

 reddish-creamy lateral band on abdominal segments 3-6 

 exhibited by milhavseri. On the other hand, the mil- 

 hauseri larva possesses no indication of the leaf-like 

 expansion of the abdominal segments 7-9 which is so very 

 striking a feature of the jj/M///c>m??i2)« larva. 



When this leaf-like expansion is recurved over the back 

 — an attitude which Mr. Millar writes is assumed when 

 the larva is disturbed and also maintained when it is at 

 rest — its extremity reaches so far forward as to cover the 

 third abdominal segment. The reversed ventral surface 

 thus exposed most successfully simulates in its contour, 

 unevenly sinuated edges, and prominent venation, the leaf 

 of its food-plant, Comhretum gueinzii, Sond., and must 

 largely screen the larva from detection, especially when 

 the point of view is directly behind and rather below it. 



A portion of the earthen cell in which this larva 

 pupates has been sent to me by Mr. Millar ; it is rather 

 solidly and compactly made of minute particles of arena- 

 ceous soil cemented together, the interior surface being 

 thickly and smoothly lined with the cementing secretion. 



The larva was discovered at Malvern, near Durban, by 

 Mr. H. M. Millar ; the $ imago above described emerged 

 on February 2nd, and the ^ on October IGtii, 11)07. 



Family COSSIDAE. 



Genus Eulophonotus, Felder. 



Allied to Zeuzera, Latr. Head small, hairy ; eyes prominent ; 

 antennae rather short, in ^ bipectinate from base to about half 

 their length but tlience simple, in $ simple throughout and very 

 slender. 



Thorax in ^ large, broad, prominently prolonged anteriorly, densely 

 clothed with short hairs, in $ much smaller and shorter in propor- 

 tion, only slightly prominent anteriorly, clothed with very dense 

 but longer hair. 



Fore-ivings much prolonged apically, the apex itself more acute in 

 the $ : radial (discoidal) nervure wanting, but its nervules origin- 

 ating from a common point, — the upper one angulated upward to 

 join disco-cellular nervule, and the lower one angulated downward 

 to join third median nervule; in (J, the costal nervure and the 

 subcostal nervure, with its first, second, and third branches are 



