92 LT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT ON S.-AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Feb. 6, 



Lepus timidus altaicus. Skull (b. L). 



No. 50.5.28.3 6(V5 



Lepus timidus ainu. 



No. 84.4.15.2, <$ . Yezo, Japan, February 1 80 



(A. Owston) J 



Lepus timidus tschuktschorum. 



No. 50. 1.26.25. Kotzebue (Lieut. Wood 1 „,- - 



& Captain Kellett) J ' 



Lepus timidus green la ndicus. 



No. 43.6.15.7, Greenland (Jut.?) 70 



No. 43.6.15.13 „ „ (seel 



Waterbouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., ii. \ 78 



p. 107) J 



No. 78.1.23.1. Lincoln Bay, Grant Land, "I s _ 



82° N. lat. (Colonel H. W. Feilden) . / ao 



No. 5349. Discovery Bay, Grant Land "1 op.- 



(H.GHart) J OD ° 



Mr. E. Trimen, F.B.S., communicated a paper by Lieut.-Col. 

 J. Malcolm Fawcett, entitled "Notes on the Transformations of 

 some South-African Lepidoptera." This memoir was accompanied 

 by a series of careful and characteristic coloured drawings from life 

 of larvae and pupae collected by the author during a residence in 

 Natal, chiefly at Ladysmith and Maritzburg. The early stages of 

 seventeen Khopalocera and thirty-one Heterocera were described 

 and figured. Nearly all of these appeared to have been previously 

 unpublished, and in the few instances where previous publication 

 had occurred, the illustrations had been inexact or insufficient. ]n 

 several species, not only the variations of the full-grown larva?, but 

 the changes exhibited at successive moults were well shown, 

 especially in the Natalian species of Papilio. Among the 

 Heterocera was specially noticeable the striking series of Saturniid 

 larvae, and still more the huge and extraordinary caterpillar of 

 Lophostethus dumolinii, one of the largest of the Smerinthine hawk- 

 moths, which, in addition to the usual caudal horn, bears many 

 strong branched spines distributed over nearly the whole of 

 the body. Colonel Fawcett's descriptions and drawings were 

 accompanied by notes of value on the distribution, food-plants, 

 &c. of the species concerned. 



Mr. Trimen expressed his deep regret (which he felt the Fellows 

 of the Society would share) that the talented writer of this memior, 

 who had rejoined his regiment in Natal, was among those officers 

 who were known to have been severely wounded during the siege 

 of Ladysmith. 



The paper will be printed in full in the Society's ' Trans- 

 actions.' 



The following papers were read : — 



