Some undescribed caterpillars. 



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the somite, the whole of the spots enclosed b}^ a light brown line; two 

 indistinct brown median lines joining the first and third pair of dots; 

 furthermore two sub-dorsal but smaller dots in same aligment as second pair. 

 On second segment near front margin two black dots connected by a 

 crescent-shaped black line (opening forward). First and second segments 

 reddish-brown; 3rd. to lOth. segment included greenish laterally, but 

 from 3d. to 8th. segment included, more reddish-brown dorsally; on 

 4th., 5th., 6th., 7th. and 8th., segment an 8-shaped greenish dorsal line; 

 on 9th. and lOth. segment the green more distinct, on llth. segment 4 

 sub-dorsal black dots, and on 12th. segment one median black dot. 

 Whole body sparsely covered with stiff short black hairs, those on the 

 two last Segments being the longest. 



The Caterpillar left the pod and suspended itself nearly horizontaly 

 in a corner of the box, attached by the tail and a thoracical girth, 



Pupa: pupa blunt, thick, rounded, tail considerably incurved, brown 

 with yellow dorsal marks. 



Length of Caterpillar 13 mm, of pupa about 8 mm. Imago was 

 a female. Time of change about 3 weeks. 



Ptegryospidea mokeezi WUgrn. 



I am indebted for the knowledge of this Caterpillar to the kindness 

 of Mr. E. Clark, Smithstreet Durban, who, having found it near Con- 

 gella on the plant vulgarly called buckweed (Justicia Woodii Clake) 

 presented this single specimen to me. 



The Caterpillar had tied the outer edges of a leaf together and 

 formed a tube which served as shelter when not feeding, this was done 

 by means of a few strong silken threads from the middle of one half 

 to the other half of the leaf. 



Caterpillar: The larva is rather thick, smooth; body thickest in 

 middle and attenuated to both ends, but more so to the tail, where it 

 forms almost asharp point; head being very large and first somite rather 

 thin the head looks, as if separated from the body by a deep constriction. 

 Furthermore the head is provided on top with two prominent lobes, its 

 colour is dark-purple, in great contrast to the body which is of a trans- 

 parent green colour; two dorsal purple spots on first segment; a longi- 

 tudinal double line of thin white streaks from head to tail and similar 

 Single but wider streaks above true legs and claspers; joints between 

 Segments slightly lighter green. Length from 32 — 38 mm. 



The larva attached itself in the same tube by the tail and by a 

 throacical girth fixed above on the leaf, but the underside resting on the 

 midrib of it. This happened on the 6th. of November, but it shed its 

 larval skin on the 9th. of the same month. 



Pupa: The pupa is bright transparent green like the Caterpillar; 

 oblong with a small blunt protection in front of the Square head; two 

 black minute spots above eyes, two larger black spots at beginning of the wing 

 sheaths, and Black spiracles on 5th., 6th., 7th., 8th., 9th. and lOth. seg- 

 ment; a minute sub-dorsal black streak above each. From the abdominal 

 end of wingsheaths rotracts a fine thorn longer than abdomen and parallel 

 to it with point slightly pinkish; point of last segment equally pinkish. 

 Length of pupa 32 mm. 



A peculiarity of the chrysalis is that the attachment of the tail is 



