306 .LT.-COL. J, M. FAWCETT OX [NoV. 4, 



Family Sphingid.^. 



2. Philampelus meg.era. (Plate XXVI. figs. 3, 4, larva ; 

 5, pupa.) 



Sphinx megcera Linnaeus, Syst. Xat. i. p. 492. n. 19 (1758) ; 

 Mus. Ulr. p. 358 (1764); id. Clerck, Icones, t. 47. fig. 2 (1759). 



Philampelus megcera Walker, Cat. Lap. Het. B.M. viii. p. 179. 

 n. 11 (1856). 



Euchloron iniegcera Boisduval, Sjpec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 214 

 (1875). 



Description. — Larva. Head green, body pale yellowish green, 

 irrorated with minute black spots and strigse ; an indistinct pale 

 subdorsal line, defined on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd somites by 

 fuscous lines, and on the remaining somites to the 11th by paired 

 black spots at the junctions of the somites, and on the 11th 

 somite by three triangular fuscous spots situated at the base of 

 the horn. On 4th somite a pale greenish- white " eye-spot " 

 defined outwardly by a black circle ; a dorsal fuscous line from 

 head becoming obsolescent on 5th somite ; horn short and yellow ; 

 legs and claspers concolorous with the rest of the body ; spi- 

 racles fuscous. 



Before pupating the larva assumes a pinkish-brown hue (as 

 shown in PI. XXYI. fig. 4). 



Feeds on common vine. 



Pupa. Dark red-brown, profusely mottled with fuscous spots 

 and strigse, formed amongst leaves on the surface of the ground 

 in a similar manner to those of species of Chcerocampa. 



The various larval stages are completed in about one month, 

 and in February and March only fourteen days are passed in the 

 pupal stage. 



Mr. J. F. Quekett, Curator of the Durban Museum, who has 

 reared examples of this species, and to whom I am indebted 

 for these observations, informs me that the species is probably 

 single-brooded, as he has never heard of, or come across, a second 

 brood. 



The perfect insect is not commonlj^ met with at Durban, but 

 may, perhaps, be sometimes overlooked owing to its superficial 

 resemblance to the common Choirocampa idricus Drury, although 

 the latter is a much smaller species. 



Family Euptekotid^. 



3, Eabdosia CLIO, n. sp. (Plate XXVI. fig. 2.) 



Description. — Male. Head and thorax reddish brown ; ab- 

 domen and wings pale ochreous brown : fore wing crossed by a 

 broad dark postmedial fascia ; veins whitish, defined inferiorly 

 by some black irroi'ations ; a marginal series of pale wedge-shaped 

 (cuneiform) lunules formed by the junction of the pale lines 

 defining the veins, their apices reaching the margin of the wing ; 



