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and two small yellow processes on each side, in line with the subspiracular processes ~ 
on the other somites. Spiracles red; those on the 4th to 11th somites being sur- 
rounded by an irregularly shaped red area. Head and legs concolorous with body. 
Larva figured has not attained its full size. 
Mr. Quekett writes: ‘‘ The food-plants of this Bunea are, at Durban, Celtis kraus- 
siana (Bernh.), and Ekebergia meyeri (Presl), and at and near Maritzburg a species of 
Cussonia, on which I have taken the Jarve in the Botanic Gardens.” 
This larva, which much resembles that of NV. wahlbergi, undergoes its transforma- 
tion underground in a similar manner to that larva, and is double-brooded, the larve 
appearing in November and December, and the second brood in March and April; 
these latter individuals remain pupe until the following October, my first specimen 
emerging on 12th of that month. 
Pupa dark reddish brown; very similar to that of Gynanisa maia (Klug). 
4, GYNANISA MAIA (Klug). (Plate XLVII. fig. 6, larva; fig. 7, pupa.) 
Larva. Ground-colour pale green, with paired dorsal series of humps ; each somite, 
from 2nd to 12th, bearing four silver spikes with yellow points inclined backwards, one 
subdorsally and one laterally on each side; also a number of small silver spots placed 
irregularly over each somite ; the first somite has no spikes, but is raised to a sharp 
ridge, with a black edge, which may be of assistance to the larva in forcing its way 
through the ground. Spiracles purple, and immediately beneath them a purple lateral 
line haying on its lower edge a yellow raised lateral line bearing a small orange-coloured 
tubercle on each somite, and thickening considerably above anal claspers, where it has 
a series of small black tubercles superiorly. Head green, with black side-streaks 
defining the eye. Under surface darker green with minute white spots, and a row 
of small red tubercles, one on each somite just above the claspers, which are green. 
Thoracic legs pale brown banded with black. 
Feeds on the common wattle (Elephantorrhiza burchellii, Bth.) and on several species 
of thorny acacia. When full-fed the larva burrows underground, and there undergoes 
its transformation, making little or no preparation in the way of a web. 
The pupa is dark reddish brown, and is remarkable for the large size of the antenne 
covers. ‘The moth is double-brooded, the larvee appearing in November, and the 
imagines emerging end of January ; the second brood of larve appearing in March and 
emerging in the following October. At Fort Napier, Maritzburg, the wattle-trees were 
completely cleared of their leaves by the March brood this year. 
If the collector possesses one female, any number of males can be secured by placing 
the female in a box on the verandah, ‘The writer has seen as many as twenty males at 
one time fluttering round the box about 10 p.w. Next morning the verandah was 
strewn with their wings, a cat, as was subsequently discovered, having caught and 
devoured them. 
