308 LIEUT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT ON THE 
Feeds on Hibiscus tiliaceus (Linneus). When full-fed the larva burrows under 
ground, and forms a sort of chamber with a web, in which it undergoes its trans- 
formation. 
The pupa is dark reddish brown, and only distinguishable from that of A. atropos 
by its greater thickness and the abdominal somites being more horny. 
The specimens reared remained in the pupal state from February till the following 
October. 
The imago is not uncommon in Durban and the cvast districts. 
Subfamily Co mROCAMPINA. 
10. CHa#RocaMPA CAPENSIS (Linneus). (Plate XLVIT. figs. 17, 18, larva; fig. 19, 
pupa.) 
Larva. Ground-colour pale green, thickly irrorated subdorsally with darker green 
diamond-shaped spots, from 5th to 11th somites; these spots coalesce into a series of 
diagonal streaks along the somites subdorsally and spiracularly. A paler green lateral 
stripe from 5th to 11th somite, with a dark green stripe along its upper edge; horn 
very short and pink ; a reddish “eye ”-like spot edged with white superiorly on 4th 
somite. Head and claspers green, thoracic legs pink ; spiracles red. 
When ready for its transformation the larva becomes dull pink flesh-coloured, the 
lateral line only remaining green; the eye-like spot and diamond-shaped irrorations 
become black, and the ground-colour of the dorsal region becomes dull yellowish. 
The figure is taken from a larva in this final stage. 
Feeds on common vine. 
Pupa. Head, wing-covers, and dorsal region dark brown, with black markings ; 
abdomen pale pink flesh-coloured. Time passed in pupa state about five weeks. 
When about to change the larva spins a web amongst leaves, &c., on the surface of 
the ground in some sheltered place, and undergoes its transformation inside. 
The imago is fairly common in the evening in flower-gardens in Maritzburg. 
I have also reared a red form of this larva, which may be described as follows :— 
Ground-colour uniformly ferruginous; a pale subdorsal stripe from 2nd somite to 
horn, white above, darkening to yellow beneath, bounded inferiorly by dark red diagonal 
stripes on each somite from 4th to 10th. On 4th somite a conspicuous “eye ”-like 
spot, black superiorly, white inferiorly. 
Mr. R. Trimen writes to me of this larva:—‘ The red form of C. capensis larva is, 
at Cape Town (where the species feeds ou the cultivated vine), very much rarer than 
the green one; the colour of the latter is decidedly protective on the cultivated vine, 
but that of the red one was not so (except slightly, perhaps, when the larva is on 
