TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOME SOUTH-AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 317 
Family AGARISTIDZ. 
26. Eusemra BuTLERI (Walker). (Plate XLVII. fig. 14, larva; fig. 15, pupa.) 
Larva. Ground-colour light bluish-grey, with fine black transverse stripes and spots 
on each somite; a reddish spiracular line. Head, thoracic legs, and Ist and 11th 
somites superiorly reddish ochreous; a few sparse hairs distributed over the somites ; 
thoracic legs fuscous; ventral claspers blue-grey, anal claspers reddish ochreous. 
Feeds on common vine (cultivated). 
The larva undergoes its transformation underground, and remains a pupa about 
one month. 
Pupa reddish fuscous, very rugged in appearance, the abdominal somites very 
strongly defined. 
The imago has a very strong penetrating scent. 
Not uncommon in Maritzburg. 
Family NOCTUID. 
Subfamily TRIFIN &. 
27. GLoTTuULA PANcRATI (Cyr.). (Plate XLIX. fig. 17, larva; fig. 18, stem of food- 
plant showing hole.) 
Larva. Reddish brown, each somite with three small black warty spots, one dorsally, 
two subdorsally, and two small pale yellow subdorsal spots; between each two somites 
a transverse row of five oblong pale yellow spots, divided mesially by the intersection 
of the somites. Head, legs, and claspers ferruginous; a few short fulvous hairs on 
the somites. 
This larva feeds on a species of lily, eating the flowers as well as the stems; also 
making a burrow inside the stem (as shown in fig. 4¢). It can eat its way out of any 
box, except tin. When full-grown it undergoes its transformation underground. 
Pupa red-brown, with strongly-marked somites. 
The imago is noteworthy owing to its exceedingly small and short pale green 
haustellum, which would seem to be of little use to it. 
28, AGRovis seaeTis (Schiff.). (Plate XLIX. fig. 16, larva.) 
Larva, Ground-colour pale brown, with small black spots placed irregularly on the 
somites; fuscous dorsal and lateral lines, the former narrow, the latter rather broad 
and bounded inferiorly by a narrow white spiracular line. Under surface, thoracic legs, 
and claspers pale fulvous. Head ferruginous, the eyes defined by two crescentic black 
frontal lines. 
Feeds on the cultivated vine, and undergoes its transformation underground. 
‘The pupal stage lasted about one month, in March. 
Imago common in Maritzburg in February and March. 
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