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Two figures of the pupa are given : one pupa is waxy white and similar to the pupae 

 of other Acrcece, the other ferruginous. The ferruginous pupae had nearly always 

 been attacked by ichneumons, with which the larvae were much infested. The imago 

 is a common butterfly in the coast district. 



6. Acr^ea buxtoni (Butler). (Plate XLVI. fig. 10, larva ; figs. 11, 12, pupa.) 



Larva. Pale buff dorsally, deepening to pale green on the sides, with a buff lateral 

 spiracular line above thoracic legs and claspers, which are also buff. Two dorsal pale 

 green stripes, interrupted on every segment by a pale yellow transverse stripe bearing 

 four black branched spines; below these are two buff-coloured spines springing from 

 the buff spiracular line. Head yellowish. 



Feeds on a species of nettle, locally called "pink hibiscus" (although it is not a 

 hibiscus at all). It is a common plant on the Berea, Durban, where I found the 

 larva, and has been identified for me by Mr. Medley Wood as Triumfetta rlwmhoidea 

 (Jacq.). 



The larva is here figured, X f , to exhibit the detail. 



Pupa waxy white, with the usual fine black lines and spots with orange centres, 

 beautifully gilded ; pupae formed in the dark, however, inside a box, are slaty black. 



Imago fairly common in Durban district. 



7. Planema esebria (Hewitson). 



This larva and pupa have been figured by Trimen, ' South African Butterflies,' i. 

 pi. i. figs. 2 & 2 a. I took it on a species of nettle (Urtica sp.), in the covert known 

 as the " Back Beach Bush," near Durban. My specimens resulted in two females of 

 the white variety A. The imago is a very common butterfly in the Durban district. 



Subfamily Nymphalisj: (Bates). 



8. Junonia cebrene (Trimen). (Plate XLVI. fig. 13, pupa.) 



This larva has been already figured by Trimen, ' South African Butterflies,' 

 pi. i. fig. 4. 



1 reared the larva from an egg which I saw deposited by the female on Justicia 

 natalensis, a common plant amongst the grass of the veldt. 



Pupa chocolate-brown, with four rows of small yellow spots on each segment, and a 

 submarginal row of white spots round the edge of the wing-covers, with a row of four 

 white spots inside them. The specimens reared passed 13 days in the pupal stage 



