TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOME SOUTH-AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 177 



Subfamily Sphingikj:. 



Htloicus juniperi (Boisduval). (Plate VII. figs. 9, imago; 10, larva.) 

 Sphinx juniperi Boisduval; Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 595 (1847). 



Larva. Head and body bright grass-green, thickly corrugated ; fine diagonal white 

 lines defined superiorly by thin fuscous lines from 4th to 11th somites, the last line 

 ending at base of horn ; below each diagonal line is a triangular bluish space on each 

 somite, which occupies the whole anal somite to base of horn, which is of the same 

 colour ; legs, claspers, and ventral area darker green than the dorsal surface of 

 the body. 



Feeds on Tecoma capensis (Lindl.), Natural Order Bignoniaceae, which is a common 

 shrub on the Natal coast. 



Pupa, which is formed underground, red-brown, with a proboscis-cover of moderate 

 length closely applied to the breast. 



The moth is somewhat scarce in the Durban district. Mr. W. Haygarth, who has 

 reared the larva, has kindly furnished me with a coloured drawing of it. 



Nephele variegata Butler. (Plate VII. fig. 14, pupa.) 

 Nephele variegata Butl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 15. 



Pupa. Pale reddish brown, marbled with minute black spots and stria? defining 

 head and wings, &c. ; proboscis-cover very long, and in shape resembling that of 

 Clmrocampa osiris, being boat-shaped instead of rounded, as is usually met with in 

 the pupse of species of Sphingince. 



I am able to give a drawing of this singular pupa, which was found in a hole in the 

 trunk of a wild fig-tree in Durban Town Square in August 1900. 



Subfamily Macroglossin^e. 



Lophuron marginatum (Walker). (Plate VII. figs. 11, imago; 12, larva; 

 13, pupa.) 



Darapsa marginata Walker, Cat. Het. B.M. viii. p. 185 (1856). 



Larva. Head bluish green; body pale yellowish green dorsally, darker green 

 inferiorly ; an indistinct fine dorsal line, a fine fuscous lateral line from 3rd to 10th 

 somites, and beneath it on each somite a whitish triangular area, small on 3rd and 4th 

 somites, but increasing in size posteriorly, and defined inferiorly by a dark green band ; 

 horn pale bluish green ; legs pink ; claspers green. 



Feeds on Psychotria {=Grumilea) capensis (Sond.), Natural Order Rubiace*. 



