Hoplitis ^phyllocampa and JEulopJionotus myrmclcon. 11 



median dorsal line a series of dense tufts of long erect reraiform 

 black bristles ; anal expansion large, rounded, with a dense felting 

 of short silky yellowish hair, tightly compressed into successive 

 transverse rings, and interspersed rather sparsely with fuscous hair, 

 more developed dorsally than ventrally. 



Larva.— Plate I, fig. 3b. Cylindrical, thick. Head large, pro- 

 tuberant, smooth ; first tlioracic segment very large, bearing dorsally 

 a large nearly semicircular smooth horny plate, with the anterior 

 edge almost straight and the lateral and posterior margin strongly 

 curved, — the middle of the latter being finely tuberculated ; spiracles 

 on this segment and on the eighth abdominal segment much larger, 

 and those on the first abdominal segment rather larger than the rest ; 

 second thoracic segment considerably larger than any of the succeeding 

 segments. Thoracic legs well developed, rather long, the extremities 

 very acute ; abdominal pro-legs short, the anal pair more prominent 

 and close together. General colouring the usual dull yellowish- 

 whitish of wood-boring larvae, with the head, prothoracic dorsal 

 shield, and anal segment reddish-brown. A series of raised fuscous 

 spots on each side of back, arranged obliquely in pairs (each pos- 

 terior spot of a pair considerably larger than the anterior one) and 

 becoming gradually more elevated and distinctly tuberculous on 

 each segment towards the hind extremity ; a lateral series of similar 

 rather smaller spots arranged vertically in pairs — each pair con- 

 sisting of a supra-spiracular spot and an infra-spiracular one; and 

 an inferior-lateral series of minute single fuscous spots, one just 

 above each leg. Length \h in. 



Described from a single specimen (from its size almost certainly 

 a $) in spirit. Mr. Millar writes that it was found tunnelling in 

 the;-' wood of a tree known as the " Natal Mahogany " (IVichilia 

 emetica, Vahl.); it was about an inch and half below the bark, and 

 its tunnel was eight inches in length. 



Pupa. — (Empty skin only; — evidently that of a $ .) Very like 

 that of Zevzera aesculi. Towards the anterior part of each 

 abdominal segment is a slender roughened horny transverse ridge 

 encircling the segment except for a rather wide ventral gap ; and 

 towards the hind part of each of the fourth, fifth, and sixth segments 

 a similar but shorter transverse ridge confined to the dorsal region; 

 the sites of the second, third, and fourth pairs of larval pro-legs are 

 also marked by small similar but semicircular roughened ridges, 

 and that of the anal rudimentary pair is indicated by two small 

 roughened tubercles. 



Mr. Millar found this empty pupa-skin projecting from 

 the bark of the tree above mentioned immediately below 



