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brought me, and this turned to a lovely mauve- 

 tinted moth with dark yellowish-brown under- 





 wings. 



Another of the same sort, belonging to Mega- 

 soma polydura (n. sp., Druce), was still more 

 beautifully marked, and I noticed that wherever 

 it rested it made a shiny silvery coating to the 

 bark. The male moth is very curious looking, 

 arid remarkably small compared with the female. 



Another most interesting caterpillar is that of 

 a small orange and black Burnet moth (EucJi- 

 romia Africana). It is a little red creature an 

 inch and a quarter long, covered with short tufts 

 of black hair ; at the head four of the tufts are 

 very long, giving the appearance of horns, and 

 there are two long tufts at the tail as well. A 

 little bit of red body is visible at both ends, and 

 at first sight one hardly knows which is head or 

 tail ; all along the back are rows of little satiny 

 cream-coloured points that appear to be hard, 

 but are in reality close tufts of hair ; these are 

 only visible after the last change of skin, the 

 previous ones being all black. They were feed- 



