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Fore-iving : a dull whitish space on middle of inner margin, ill defined 
on its edges, rising slightly above first median nervule. Hind-wing : a 
broad, even, transverse pure white land from costa to submedian nervure, 
where it narrows, and is abruptly and widely interrupted, ending in a 
separate elongate white spot close to inner margin beyond middle. 
Cilia on both sides grey, but orange-yelloiv on lobe of anal angle. 
Head above ashy-grey, with an ochreous-yellow spot on each side 
between eye and base of antenna ; palpi with terminal joint wholly 
black, but with middle joint above black-tipped with ochreous-yellow, 
— beneath ochreous-yellow, with a conspicuous outer black longitudinal 
streak ; antennce black. Thorax above ashy-grey mixed with greenish ; 
collar edged anteriorly with an orange-yellow line ; beneath ashy-grey, 
except mesially in front, where it is orange-yellow ; legs fuscous, the 
cox£e, femora, and tibiae with long dense tufts of orange-yellow hair, 
the latter (and also the fore-tarsi) more or less striped longitudinally 
with creamy-yellow in front. Abdomen above dark-grey with whitish, 
laterally and inferiorly black with white, segmental rings ; a median 
longitudinal ochre- yellow stripe beneath. 
^ like but the ground-colour rather darker. 
Larva. — " Pale-yellow, with purplish or crimson transverse bands. 
Head brick-red or yellowish, with two frontal rows of black spots — the 
upper row of six, the lower of five ; mandibles black. Each segment 
with a deep crimson or purplish transverse median band ; the yellow 
ground between these bands crossed by two narrow streaks of the same 
colour. Anal segment with three somewhat angulated black marks. 
Above spiracles a series of rather elevated yellowish spots. Legs 
black ; pro-legs deep yellow or orange. 
" About an inch in length, but variable in size. Eeeds on Eobinia 
pseud-acacia (and probably on Erijthrina caffra)^ fastening the pinnte 
of a leaf tocrether with silk and feedinf]f in the shelter thus formed." — 
J. P. Mansel Weale, in epist. 
Plate II. fig. 6. 
Pupa. — Pale greyish-green, covered with a dense chalky-white 
efflorescence ; first three dorsal segmental incisions of abdomen yellow. 
Under surface with nine small black spots, viz., one on each eye-case, 
one (rather smaller) on middle line of haustellum, two (not so widely 
apart as those on eyes) on middle pair of legs, two (very minute) on 
third pair of legs, not so widely apart as the two preceding them, and 
two (larger than the rest and sub-rhomboidal) on wing-covers, a little 
more widely apart than those on eyes. Spiracles linear, black. Head 
with an acute, median, superior, small, short, slender black projection ; 
a similar projection, rather dorsal than lateral, on each side of collar of 
thorax, and a little below it, on shoulder, three black dots arranged 
triangularly. Anal projection blackish. 
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