TRANSFORMATIONS OP SOME SOUTH-AFRICAN LBPIDOPTERA. 817 



Family AGARISTIDtE. 



26. Eusemia butleri (Walker). (Plate XLVII. fig. 14, larva ; fig. 15, pupa.) 



Larva. Ground-colour light bluish-grey, with fine black transverse stripes and spots 

 on each somite; a reddish spiracular line. Head, thoracic legs, and 1st and 11th 

 somites superiorly reddish ochreous ; a few sparse hairs distributed over the somites ; 

 thoracic legs fuscous ; ventral claspers blue-grey, anal claspers reddish ochreous. 



Feeds on common vine (cultivated). 



The larva undergoes its transformation underground, and remains a pupa about 

 one month. 



Pupa reddish fuscous, very rugged in appearance, the abdominal somites very 

 strongly defined. 



The imago has a very strong penetrating scent. 



Not uncommon in Maritzbura - . 



Family NOCTUHm 



Subfamily Teifinj:. 



27. Glottula pancratii (Cyr.). (Plate XLIX. fig. 17, larva; fig. 18, stem of food- 

 plant showing hole.) 



Larva. Reddish brown, each somite with three small black warty spots, one dorsally, 

 two subdorsally, and two small pale yellow subdorsal spots ; between each two somites 

 a transverse row of five oblong pale yellow spots, divided mesially by the intersection 

 of the somites. Head, legs, and claspers ferruginous ; a few short fulvous hairs on 

 the somites. 



This larva feeds on a species of lily, eating the flowers as well as the stems ; also 

 making a burrow inside the stem (as shown in fig. Ac). It can eat its way out of any 

 box, except tin. "When full-grown it undergoes its transformation underground. 



Pupa red-brown, with strongly-marked somites. 



The imago is noteworthy owing to its exceedingly small and short pale green 

 haustellum, which would seem to be of little use to it. 



28. Agrotis segetis (Schiff.). (Plate XLIX. fig. 16, larva.) 



Larva. Ground-colour pale brown, with small black spots placed irregularly on the 

 somites ; fuscous dorsal and lateral lines, the former narrow, the latter rather broad 

 and bounded inferiorly by a narrow white spiracular line. Under surface, thoracic legs, 

 and claspers pale fulvous. Head ferruginous, the eyes defined by two crescentic black 

 frontal lines. 



Feeds on the cultivated vine, and undergoes its transformation underground. 



The pupal stage lasted about one month, in March. 



Imago common in Maritzburg in February and March. 



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