196 DEL AGO A BAY. 



change to pupa became very restless, walking 

 quickly about and eating nothing for three days, 

 one of them during his restless march absolutely 

 turning out the chrysalis of his friend from its 

 own proper lair and curling himself snugly nearly 

 all day long under the soft network. I thought 

 be was going to remain there and be a sort of 

 cuckoo-caterpillar, but he changed his mind, 

 came out suddenly, and wove a resting-place for 

 himself. These caterpillars when touched threw 

 off some minute hairs most irritating and difficult 

 to extract from the skin. They remained in 

 pupa six months, and then emerged as a large 

 soft pinkish-grey moth (Trabala Rosa, n. sp. 

 Druce). 



The caterpillar of Anthercea menippe, a large 

 handsome red moth with dark eyelike spots, is 

 another fat giant, measuring five inches, red, 

 with rows of black spines. It feeds on a hand- 

 some bush (Ochna atropurpured) with yellow 

 flowers somewhat like large hawthorn, having a 

 curious fleshy crimson seed-pod, and the dark 

 green leaves looking as if freshly dipped in gum 



