1902.] SOUTH- AFRICAN LEPIDOPXERA. 307 



the extremity of the wing is darker beyond thes3 kmules, and 

 also near the base between veins 1 and 2 : hind wing with mar- 

 ginal lunules- similar to those on the fore wing bat paler and more 

 indistinct. Cilia red-brown. 



The specimen figured was reared from a larva in Pieter- 

 maritzburg in 1899, but the notes on its transformations were 

 subsequently lost. 



Family NoCTUiD^. 



Subfamily Quadrifin^. 



4. Dermaleipa daseia, n. sp. (Plate XXVI. fig. 1.) 



Description. — Male. Head and thorax reddish brown ; abdomen 

 scarlet below, fuscous above. Fore wing reddish purple-brown, 

 much irrorated with darker brown especially along the costal 

 margin ; a short subbasal dark line ; a straight outwardly oblique 

 antemedial line defined with dark fuscous outwardly ; reniform 

 large and dark, ringed with fuscous ; an outwardly oblique post- 

 medial line defined outwardly by a dark fuscous line ; an irre- 

 gular submarginal line of minute black spots between the veins. 

 Hind wing apically and outwardly scarlet, inwardly black, the 

 abdominal margin being fringed with a lateral tuft of long 

 ochreous hairs. Underside scarlet, reniform black. 



Female. Fore wing similar to that of the male but paler ; 

 hind wing with the black inner area divided into a median patch 

 and a short submarginal fascia, the latter not reaching the outer 

 margin of the wing near the anal angle, as in the male ; no 

 lateral tufts of long hairs on the abdominal margins. Underside 

 as in the male. 



This species presents considerable analogy to the well-known 

 Indian species Lagoptera juno Dalman ; the coloration being 

 somewhat similar, and the lateral tufts of long hairs on the hind 

 wing of the male being identical. This moth is a day-flier, and 

 the writer has taken both sexes flying in brilliant sunshine in 

 the covert known as " the Town Bush " near Pietermaritzburg, 

 Natal, at about 3000 feet elevation in January. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVL 



Fig. 1. Dermaleipa daseia, male, p. 307. 



2. Habdosia clio, male, p. 306. 



3. Philamjpelus megcera, larva, second last skin, p. 308. 



4. Ditto. Full-fed, just before pupating. 



5. Ditto. Pupa. 



6. Papilio dardaniis, larva, early stage, p. 304. 



7. Ditto. Larva, full-fed. 



8. Ditto. Pupa, dorsal view. 



9. Ditto. Pupa, ventral view. 



10. Ditto. Pupa, side view. 



11. Ditto. Head of larva with tentacles protruded. 



12. Ditto. Female form bred = cenea StoU. 



13. Ditto. Female form bred = var. of P. hippocoon Fabricius, 



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