KYMPHALIN^. 



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wardly bluish white-edged stria crossing discoidal cells ; a double 

 bluish-white line closing cell ; an irregular trnnsverse stripe, inter- 

 rupted on third median nervules, just beyond cells; a darker shade of 

 brown between this stripe and the white one ; and two rows (more 

 or less interrupted) of whitish hind-marginal lunules. Fore-iving : a 

 minute line close to base and a ring beyond it (enclosing a ferruginous 

 one) in discoidal cell, bluish-white ; a ferruginous cloud on costa 

 beyond middle, and two others (smaller) on projections of hind-margin. 

 Hind-icing : a whitish ring in cell near base ; close to it a smaller one 

 above cell ; a large ferruginous cloud on hind-margin, between dis- 

 coidal nervule and anal angle. 



Var. a. $. — Common transverse stripe ivann ochreons-ycllow instead 

 of white, and a little wider in hind-wing and on inner margin of fore- 

 wing. 



Rah. — D'Urban, Natal (one specimen ; Colonel Bowker, July 1880). 



Plate Y. fig. 5. 



Aberration $. — Common transverse white band crenelated on both 

 sides, and somewhat suffused, — in hind-w^ing considerably broader than 

 usual ; two hind-marginal rows of silvery-white lunules in hind- wing 

 united so as to form a border, thinly irrorated with fuscous. Under 

 SIDE. — Ferruginous and other markings somewhat confused and blurred ; 

 white stripe not so well defined as on upper side. 



JIah. — D'Urban, Natal (one specimen ; Colonel Bowker, 29th Octo- 

 ber 1879). 



Larva. — Green or greenish, paler on under surface, with elevated 

 sub-spinous dorsal and sub-spiracular lateral tubercular processes ter- 

 minating in a stellate tuft of three to five bristles ; processes on second 

 and third segments only half the length of those on fourth to tenth 

 segments, but on eleventh and twelfth much longer than the latter. 

 A sub-spiracular white or whitish longitudinal stripe, interrupted 

 obliquely on each segment from fifth to tenth ; below this stripe, on 

 third and fourth segments, a black streak. Granulated black dorsal 

 patches on fourth, sixth, seventh, and eleventh segments. Head 

 dark-brown or blackish, slightly larger than next segment, bearing 

 in front two long, upright, outwardly-curving, rather widely-diver- 

 gent horns, thickened and branched at the tip, and irregularly spined 

 throughout ; these horns are black in front and sandy - coloured 

 behind ; the face flat, edged with white, and closely set with white hairs 

 or bristles. Length, i to i i inch. Feeds on a common creeper, Dale- 

 champict eajjensis. 



PuPA.-^Green, darker on back ; wing-covers finely edged and 

 transversely streaked with dark-brown or blackish ; also the following 

 blackish marks, viz., a dot on each wing-cover, on each side of the 

 thorax and abdomen, and on the head. In form, the head is acutely 

 bifid ; lateral angles at bases of wing-covers very prominent ; wing- 



