308 LIEUT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT ON THE 



Feeds on Hibiscus tiliaceus (Linnaeus). When full-fed the larva burrows under 

 ground, and forms a sort of chamber with a web, in which it undergoes its trans- 

 formation. 



The pupa is dark reddish brown, and only distinguishable from that of A. atropos 

 by its greater thickness and the abdominal somites being more horny. 



The specimens reared remained in the pupal state from February till the following 

 October. 



The imago is not uncommon in Durban and the coast districts. 



Subfamily Chjikocampina 



10. Ch^eeocampa capensis (Linnaeus). (Plate XLVIL figs. 17, 18, larva; fig. 19, 

 pupa.) 



Larva. Ground-colour pale green, thickly irrorated subdorsally with darker green 

 diamond-shaped spots, from 5th to 11th somites; these spots coalesce into a series of 

 diagonal streaks along the somites subdorsally and spiracularly. A paler green lateral 

 stripe from 5th to 11th somite, with a dark green stripe along its upper edge ; horn 

 very short and pink ; a reddish " eye "-like spot edged with white superiorly on 4th 

 somite. Head and claspers green, thoracic legs pink ; spiracles red. 



When ready for its transformation the larva becomes dull pink flesh-coloured, the 

 lateral line only remaining green ; the eye-like spot and diamond-shaped irrorations 

 become black, and the ground-colour of the dorsal region becomes dull yellowish. 

 The figure is taken from a larva in this final stage. 



Feeds on common vine. 



Pupa. Head, wing-covers, and dorsal region dark brown, with black markings ; 

 abdomen pale pink flesh-coloured. Time passed in pupa state about five weeks. 

 When about to change the larva spins a web amongst leaves, &c, on the surface of 

 the ground in some sheltered place, and undergoes its transformation inside. 



The imago is fairly common in the evening in flower-gardens in Maritzburg. 



I have also reared a red form of this larva, which may be described as follows : — 



Ground-colour uniformly ferruginous ; a pale subdorsal stripe from 2nd somite to 

 horn, white above, darkening to yellow beneath, bounded inferiorly by dark red diagonal 

 stripes on each somite from 4th to 10th. On 4th somite a conspicuous " eye "-like 

 spot, black superiorly, white inferiorly. 



Mr. R. Trimen writes to me of this larva : — " The red form of C. capensis larva is, 

 at Cape Town (where the species feeds on the cultivated vine), very much rarer than 

 the green one ; the colo ur of the latter is decidedly protective on the cultivated vine, 

 but that of the red one was not so (except slightly, perhaps, when the larva is on 



