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5. Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Westwood). (Plate XLVII. figs. 11, 12, larva; 

 fig. 13, pupa.) 



Larva. Ground-colour bluish grey, each somite with a broad transverse indented 

 black streak, thickest on 2nd somite, and two finer black transverse lines across the 

 upper part of the body between the somites. Body broader in the middle than 

 anteriorly or posteriorly. Above anal extremity a sharp-pointed black horn — a fine 

 black spiracular line, and immediately below it a broad raised ferruginous line bearing 

 a small black tubercle crowned with some short yellow hairs on each somite. Under 

 surface and abdominal claspers pale yellow. Head, thoracic legs, and anal claspers 

 black. A tuft of short hairs on the summit of the 2nd somite. 



Feeds on Jurrea heterophylla (Smith), and undergoes its transformation underground ; 

 the period passed in pupa state (in March) was 17 days. 



Pupa dark red-brown, abdominal somites strongly marked ; chiefly remarkable for 

 the long sharply-pointed tail resembling the point of a thorn. 



The imago is a common species, flying by day, in the Berea Bush, Durban. 



6. Urota sinope (Westwood). (Plate XLVII. fig. 9, larva; fig. 10, pupa.) 



Larva. Ground-colour velvety black, with a series of paired pale yellow humps formed 

 by a thick raised transverse yellow streak, bearing a pair of short tubercles crowned 

 with short yellow hairs dorsally on each somite, and a series of similar short tubercles 

 laterally at the lower end of each streak. Spiracles pale yellow, and below them an 

 interrupted, raised, subspiracular line covered with short yellow hairs. Head black, 

 surmounted by a yellow transverse band where it joins 1st somite, and crowned with 

 some yellow hairs. Thoracic legs black, abdominal claspers yellow banded with black, 

 anal claspers and extremity yellow, all covered with yellow hairs. 



Feeds in companies on the " Kaffir boom " tree (Erythrina caffra, Thb.). 



Pwpa dark red-brown and of the usual form, with a sharpish spur or horn at the 

 anal extremity. The transformation is carried out underground. 



Fairly common in Durban district. 



7. L.UDIA smilax (Westwood). (Plate XLIX. fig. 6, larva ; fig. 7, cocoon.) 



Larva. Ground-colour rufous, with irregular pale blue spots surrounded by a thin 

 white line. On each somite a short tuft of black hairs, surmounted by a tuft of longer 

 and finer hairs of same colour, and the first five and last somites covered with short 

 yellow hairs. Head, legs, and claspers brown. 



This larva, which looks, through a microscope, like a piece of old china ware in 

 colour, is one of the most unpleasant larvae to handle that I have ever met with. The 

 short black hairs on each somite possess poisonous qualities, which produce on the 

 hand a white rash akin to that produced by a bad stinging from nettles. It forms a 



