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II. Notes on the Transformations of some South-African Lepidoptera. (Continued 

 from the ' Transactions of the Zoological .Society of London,' vol. xv. pt. 6, April 

 1901.) By Lieut. -Colonel J. Malcolm Fawcett l . 



Eeceived January 20, read March 18, 1902. 



[Plates VL-VIIL] 



OlNCE writing my former paper on this subject (which was published in Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. of London, vol. xv. pt. 6, in April 1901), I have been prevented by the 

 exigencies of the Service during the South-African campaign from devoting any time 

 to it until now, as for the greater part of the intervening period I have been constantly 

 on the march with different columns in the interior of the Transvaal. I had, however, 

 one period of leisure during the months of November and December, 1900, and a few 

 days in January 1901, while my regiment was in standing camp at Belfast (a station 

 on the Delagoa Railway), and I was fortunate enough to discover and describe the 

 wingless female of Metarctia metetis (Stoll) after rearing it from the larva, as well as 

 the larvae of Phyllalia patens (Boisd.), BstUjmene dissimilis Distant, and other larvse 

 which feed on the various grasses and plants of the veldt, comprising two new species 

 of both the last-named genera. 



During this time, however, my two friends in Durban, Mr. J. F. Quekett and 

 Mr. W. Haygarth, who gave me so much assistance when preparing my former paper, 

 were not idle, and the present paper is mainly due to their researches and observations. 

 When I passed through Durban on my way home on sick-leave in April 1901, I found 

 that a fine series of larva? and pupse had been collected by them and preserved for me 

 in spirits, so that I am now able to figure and describe the transformations of 3o more 

 species. My thanks are also due to Mr. Alfred D. Millar, who kindly presented 

 me with the living larvae of Ambulyx postica (Walk.) and Chcerocampa orpheus 

 Herr.-Schaff. 



' Communicated by It. Tkimen, F.E.S., F.Z.S. 



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