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the older woody stems). I imagine, however, from one of the red ones which 

 I found on its native food-plant, the wild Cape vine (Cissus ca/pensis), that this 

 tint was probably acquired in relation to the latter plant, which is densely clothed 

 with red down on the younger shoots and underside of the leaves. I have noticed 

 the common Cape Butcher-bird (Fiscus collaris) taking capensis-lax\s3 from the 

 cultivated vines at Cape Town and spiking them on thorns ; such persecution would 

 seem to show that these larvae are in need of protective resemblance to their food- 

 plants." 



11. Ch^eeocampa osiris (Dalman). (Plate XLVIII. figs. 3, 4, larva; tigs. 5, 6, 

 pupa.) 



Larva. Ground-colour pale green, thickly irrorated witli darker green diamond- 

 shaped spots as in G. capensis. A paler green lateral stripe from 5th to 11th somites, 

 ending at a very small yellow horn. Two large " eye "-like spots (green with a light 

 blue centre, on which are placed six minute white spots), surrounded by a narrow light 

 yellow iris, on 4th somite ; two smaller round yellow spots on 5th somite. Head, 

 spiracles, and claspers green ; mandibles and thoracic legs pink. 



When ready for transformation the larva becomes pale reddish brown with a 

 violaceous suffusion ; the intersections of the somites and lateral stripe become white, 

 while the diamond-shaped spots become black where they are most thickly placed near 

 the junction of the somites ; the large " eye-like " spots become brown with a green 

 iris, while the yellow spot becomes black. The effect of these changes is to give the 

 larva, when viewed dorsally, a very startling resemblance to a snake of the banded 

 Krait species. 



Feeds on the common vine. 



Pupa light brown dorsally, variegated with black spots and streaks defining head, 

 eyes, antennae, wing-covers, nervures, and abdominal somites ; breast, wing-covers, and 

 underside of abdomen pale pink flesh-coloured. 



This pupa is chiefly remarkable for its abnormally long snout, the palpi-covers being 

 produced to form a shield or covering for the haustellum. 



The transformation takes place amongst leaves on the surface of the ground, without 

 much attempt at making a chamber with a web, the leaves being loosely strung- 

 together by means of a silken thread. 



This larva was received from Bellevue, a suburb of Durban ; the imago seems to be 

 rather uncommon. 



12. Celekocampa balsamim (Boisduval). (Plate XLVIII. fig. 1, larva ; fig. 2, 

 pupa.) 



Larva. Ground-colour bright grass-green ; from 6th to 11th somites a brown inter- 



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