cd 
60 Miss M. E. Fountaine’s Descriptions of 
along the sides is a white stripe, sparsely speckled with 
black, and broken into between each segment. Under- 
neath it is green or dull brownish as the case may be. 
14. Acraea nohara, Boisd. 
(Plate X, figs. 14a, 140.) 
This larva feeds like several others of this same genus 
on Wormskioldia longepedunculata, a small, wayside 
flower, salmon-pink in colour, which grew abundantly in 
and about Macequece, a village in Portuguese East Africa. 
The larva is most difficult to describe, longitudinally 
streaked with pale and dark ochre-yellow, finely outlined 
with thin black lines, the spines are also black; they feed 
by preference on the flower itself of their food-plant, the 
salmon-pink colour of which is almost identical in tone 
with the salmon-pink colour of the freshly-emerged 
butterflies. The pupa which is suspended, is very long 
and thin in shape, wing-cases pale slaty-grey, veined with 
black, and the abdomen cream-colour with rows of 
ochreous-yellow dots, encircled in black. 
15. A. caldarena, Hewits. 
(Plate X, figs. 15a, 15d.) 
The larva of this butterfly also feeds on the flowers and 
leaves of W. longepedunculata; it is of a soft pink rose- 
colour, shading into yellow at the extremities, underneath 
it has a longitudinal white stripe between the legs, 
extending from head to tail; the spines are black. The 
pupa is not quite so elongated in shape as that of 
A. nohara, the wing-cases are pale, dull drab veined and 
outlined with black, the abdomen is deep cream-colour, 
with the rows of orange spots so heavily outlined with 
black as to be almost coalescent. I found this larva, but 
not at all commonly, at Macequece. 
16. A. anemosa, Hewits. 
(Plate X, figs. 16a, 160.) 
This very handsome, extremely active little larva 
occurred very commonly at Macequece, on almost every 
available piece of its food-plant, a creeper, identified at 
the Board of Agriculture at Pretoria as (most probably) 
Modecca abyssinica. I first discovered it, in the usual 
way, by watching a ? laying eggs; these are laid in batches 
mo”? 
of various sizes, some with about ten eggs together, others 
