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inner extremity. A broad transverse discal band, either outwardly 
dark purple and inwardly dark pinkish-orange, or entirely dark grey, 
between lower edge of costal pink and inner-margin. 
Under-side. Forewing. Costal and basal areas mouse-grey with 
long whitish hairs. Inner-margin and basal half of area 2 bright 
pink. A broad orange-red costal patch just beyond hyaline spot. 
Apex dark grey with a few white scales. Hind-margin broadly light 
tawny-orange, with a row of dark orange-red inter-nervular spots, that 
in area 2 much larger than the others. Hind-wing as in male. 
Wing expanse. ¢ 52-58 mm.; @ 62-75 mm. 
This very pretty Ludia may prove to be identical with the East 
African species described by Hampson several years ago (the 
description of which I have not seen), or it may be a new species. It 
does not seem to occur outside the Salisbury district. The larva feeds 
on Uapaca kirkiana, rarely on Protea sp., and is a wonderfully 
variable caterpillar. I have taken no fewer than ten different 
varieties of this caterpillar, each of which was quite unlike any of the 
others. It is covered with long glandular hairs, a slight touch of 
which causes a very painful blister. In one form there is a very 
broad dorsal band extending from behind the head to the anal plate, 
the lateral surfaces are light greyish-olive, and each segment bears 
eight bright yellow strongly setigerous tubercles. A second form has 
the dorsal and lateral surfaces black, mottled with small yellow and 
white spots, and on each segment is a band of eight large contiguous 
crimson tubercles. A third form is pure white with the rings of 
tubercles bright orange-red. A fourth, pale creamy-ochreous, with 
ochreous-brown tubercles and marks, and in a fifth the colours are 
bright yellow and magenta. I have mislaid the short descriptions I 
made of the other vars. The moth is double-brooded, the adult larva 
being found in October or April. When about to pupate it spins a 
very hard cocoon. The early brood of moths emerges at the end of 
October, or, more commonly, in November, and the late summer brood 
in March. The discal mark on the hind-wing is wonderfully 
suggestive of a black cat, as is remarked by nearly everybody who 
sees the moth. 
HOoLocERA RHODESIENSIS, Janse. 
This beautiful moth is fairly common at Salisbury ; the larvee feed 
on Cussonia spicata and are gregarious, 
