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light blue dorsally, thickly irrorated with minute white spots ; a pale yellowish -white 

 subdorsal line and ill-defined pale diagonal streaks on each somite except 1st and 2nd ; 

 spiracles whitish, defined by brown lines ; horn fuscous, long and straight, and thickly 

 irrorated with small tubercles of same colour ; legs fuscous ; abdominal claspers green, 

 anal claspers defined by a black tubercular line. 



Final stage. Body as in early stage, but the head has no apical horn, and the anal 

 horn is ochraceous, shorter, and curved downwards. 



Feeds on Cordia caffra fSond.), Natural Order Boraginese. 



Pupa. Red-brown, of the usual shape, with a short spur at the anal extremity. 



The transformation is effected underground. 



The moth is rare in the Durban district, and I have not met with it elsewhere. 



Subfamily Chjeocampibj;. 



Ch^eeooampa eson (Cramer). (Plate VIII. figs. 20, larva, side view; 21, larva, 

 dorsal view ; 22, pupa.) 



Sphinx eson Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccxxvi. f. C (1779). 



Larva. Head olive-brown ; body reddish ochraceous-brown above, dark red-brown 

 underneath, covered by minute black striae ; a thin dorsal black line ; a triangular dark 

 brown or black patch on the 11th somite, the apex of which lies at the base of the horn ; 

 another blackish patch below the horn and above the anal claspers; subdorsal dark brown 

 lines, continuous on the first three somites, and continued faintly along the remaining 

 somites to the base of the horn, their position being defined by the upper edge of the "eye- 

 spots " on the 1th and 5th somites, and by two small black spots on 5th, 6tb, 7th, 8th, 

 and 9th somites, and by the lower edge of the dark triangular patch on the 1 1th somite ; 

 a dark lateral line on the first four somites, followed by oblique lateral lines on the 

 remaining somites to the 11th, dark brown ; on 4th somite a black " eye-spoc," with a 

 pale straw-coloured iris defined outwardly by a thin black line ; on 5 th somite a pale 

 straw-coloured " eye-spot," defined outwardly by a thin black line, thickening to a 

 black crescent above the " eye-spot " ; legs and claspers dark red-brown ; horn 

 concolorous with the upper part of the body ; spiracles dark brown. 



Feeds on common vine, fuchsia, and wild cucumber. 



Pupa. Pale brown dorsally, dark reddish brown on the breast and wing-covers, 

 minutely mottled with black atoms and marked with ochraceous at the incision of the 

 somites ; a short sharp-pointed horn at the anal extremity ; is formed amongst leaves 

 on the surface of the ground. 



Mr. J. F. Quekett, to whom I am indebted for specimens of this larva and pupa, 

 informs me that in Natal there are two and even^ three broods in the year. The larva 



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