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(23rd Jan. to 4th Feb.). I reared one specimen from the egg which I saw deposited 

 by the female, but regret that I made no notes of the earlier stages, save that the 

 young larvae were, during the first two moults, lighter and more violaceous in colour, 

 and the spines were proportionately much smaller. 

 The imago is common everywhere in Natal. 



9. Junonja clelia (Cramer). (Plate XLVI. fig. 14, larva ; fig. 15, pupa.) 



Larva. Dark slaty black, covered with minute yellowish-white atoms, and each 

 segment bearing black branched spines as in the larva of J. cebrene, from which it only 

 differs in being lighter coloured and brownish underneath, and in having an interrupted 

 white laleral line above spiracles. 



Feeds on Asystasia coromandeliana. 



Pupa. Dark chocolate-brown ; wing-covers lighter ; yellowish-white spots on thorax 

 and each segment and wing-covers, as in pupa of J. cebrene. Duration of pupal stage 

 11 days (March 1 to 12). 



Imago very common in Durban, more rarely seen in Maritzburg. 



10. Pykameis cakdui (Linnseus). 



The larva of this well-known species has been so often described that any description 

 here would be superfluous ; 1 will therefore merely state that I reared it on a large 

 species of thistle named iStoboea discolor (Harv.). The larva was very similar to that 

 of Junonia clelia, but differed in being longer in proportion to its width ; the branched 

 spines were yellow instead of black, and the black dorsal line was more defined ; the 

 pupa was beautifully gilded. 



11. Chakaxes candiope (Godart). (Plate XLVI. fig. 16, larva; fig. 17, pupa.) 



Larva. Grass-green, irrorated with minute yellow spot*, which coalesce into a lateral 

 line below the spiracles, which ends on the 12th segment in a bifid tail. On the 6th 

 and 8th segments are placed three yellow spots with orange centres, one dorsal and 

 two subdorsal, the dorsal spot being larger than the subdorsal spots and more oval in 

 shape. Head dark green in front, brownish to pale yellow at the sides, with four light 

 brown serrated horns, two springing divergently from the top of the head and two 

 from the sides. 



Feeds on a species of Croton, probably Croton sylvaticus (Hochst). 



Pupa. Grass-green ; very short and thick, suspended by tail to stem of food-plant. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Walter Butcher for a specimen of this larva from the neighbour- 

 hood of Durban, where the imago is common on the Berea in the summer months. 



