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5. PsEUDAPHELIA APOLLINARIS (Westwood). (Plate XLVII. figs. 11, 12, larva; 
fig. 13, pupa.) 
Larva. Ground-colour bluish grey, each somite with a broad transverse indented 
black streak, thickest on 2nd somite, and two finer black transverse, lines across the 
upper part of the body between the somites. Body broader in the middle than 
anteriorly or posteriorly. Above anal extremity a sharp-pointed black horn—a fine 
black spiracular line, and immediately below it a broad raised ferruginous line bearing 
a small black tubercle crowned with some short yellow hairs on each somite. Under 
surface and abdominal claspers pale yellow. Head, thoracic legs, and anal claspers 
black. <A tuft of short hairs on the summit of the 2nd somite. 
Feeds on Jurrea heterophylla (Smith), and undergoes its transformation underground ; 
the period passed in pupa state (in March) was 17 days. 
Pupa dark xed-brown, abdominal somites strongly marked; chiefly remarkable for 
the long sharply-pointed tail resembling the point of a thorn. 
The imago is a common species, flying by day, in the Berea Bush, Durban. 
6. Urora sinopr (Westwood). (Plate XLVII. fig. 9, larva; fig. 10, pupa.) 
Larva. Ground-colour velvety black, with a series of paired pale yellow humps formed 
by a thick raised transverse yellow streak, bearing a pair of short tubercles crowned 
with short yellow hairs dorsally on each somite, and a series of similar short tubercles 
laterally at the lower end of each streak. Spiracles pale yellow, and below them an 
interrupted, raised, subspiracular line covered with short yellow hairs. Head black, 
surmounted by a yellow transverse band where it joins lst somite, and crowned with 
some yellow hairs. Thoracic legs black, abdominal claspers yellow banded with black, 
anal claspers and extremity yellow, all covered with yellow hairs. 
Feeds in companies on the “ Kaffir boom ” tree (Hrythrina caffra, Thb.). 
Pupa dark red-brown and of the usual form, with a sharpish spur or horn at the 
anal extremity. The transformation is carried out underground. 
Fairly common in Durban district. 
7. Lupra smiLax (Westwood). (Plate XLIX. fig. 6, larva; fig. 7, cocoon.) 
Larva. Ground-colour rufous, with iregular pale blue spots surrounded by a thin 
white line. On each somite a short tuft of black hairs, surmounted by a tuft of longer 
and finer hairs of same colour, and the first five and last somites covered with short 
yellow hairs. Head, legs, and claspers brewn. 
This larva, which looks, through a microscope, like a piece of old china ware in 
colour, is one of the most unpleasant larve to handle that I have ever met with. ‘The 
short black hairs on each somite possess poisonous qualities, which produce on the 
hand a white rash akin to that produced by a bad stinging from nettles. It forms a 
