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has two castaneous cross-bands, defined outwardly by pale ochraceous bands, the whole 

 being thickly covered by pale ochraceous hairs ; legs and anal extremity pale ochraceous, 

 marked with black; claspers black; spiracles black, defined by fine white lines. 



Feeds on the " wild mango " tree, Sclerocarya caffra (Sond.), Natural Order 

 Anacardiacese. 



Pupa formed in an ochraceous cocoon composed of the hairs of the larva. 



This species has been reared by Mr. J. F. Quekett from the egg at Durban. 



Family HYPSIDiE. 



Caluokatis bellatrix (Dalman). (Plate VIII. figs. 11, larva; 12, pupa.) 

 ? Bombyx bellatrix Dalman, Anal. Ent. p. 50 (1823). 



Larva. Head ferruginous ; body, ground-colour dull yellowish white ; each somite 

 crossed by a broad black band or ring bearing small paired subdorsal, lateral, and 

 spiracular tubercles ; legs, claspers, and spiracles steely blue-black ; a few black hairs 

 on the black rings of the first three somites. 



The young larva differs only in size. 



Feeds on Crotalaria capensis Jacq., Natural Order Leguminosae '. 



Pupa. Bright polished yellow, with paired black spots on the abdomen subdorsally 

 and laterally, and black marks on the breast and wing-covers ; spiracles black. 

 Usually enclosed in slight white silky web on the stem of the food-plant. 



The moth is not uncommon in Durban. 



Egybolis vaillantina (Stoll). (Plate VIII. figs. 13, larva; 13a, front view of 

 head of larva ; 14, pupa.) 



Bombyx vaillantina Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. xxxi. f. 3 (1790). 



Larva. Head black, marbled with white fasciae ; body, each somite pale yellow with 

 subdorsal, lateral, and spiracular pairs of small black tubercles, each bearing a few 

 black hairs, the somites being separated by broad black bands or rings, each band 

 bearing also two fine white rings ; the anal extremity black, crossed by two white 

 bands ; legs, claspers, and spiracles black. 



Feeds on Sapinclus oblongifolius (Sond .), Natural Order Sapindaceae. 



Pupa. Pale ferruginous, marked with numerous fine black lines defining eyes, 

 antennas, veins on wing-covers, and abdominal somites ; spiracles black. Like that 



1 [So long ago as March 1858 I reared many larva? of this species at Knysna, in the Cape Colony, on the 

 same food-plant. My description differs in a few points from that here given, as it notes that the bristles on 

 the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments (and also on the 11th and 12th) are long and white, and that the tubercles 

 on the black rings are steely blue, and that each bears a single long black bristle. — 11. T.] 



