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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES, 
which I captured consisted almost entirely of specimens with either obsolete 
or very small ocelli. 
Additional locality of M. Sajitza in Eastern Districts of Cape Colony : — 
Tharfield, Kleinemond River (Miss M. L. Bowlcer). 
Additional locality of M. jperspicua in Transvaal : — Eureka, near Barberton 
(0. F. Palmer). 
Melanitis diver sa, p. 1 1 6. 
Fig. of Gnophodes ParmenOj Stand., Exot. Schmett. pi. 78 (1886). 
Lethe Indosa, p. 121. 
Fig. of Lethe dendrophilus, var. albo-maculatus, Stand., Exot. Schmett., 
pi. 78 (1886). 
Additional localities : — Coast Districts of Natal : Umzinto (/. H. Bowlcer). 
Zululand : Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 
Meneris Tulhaghia, p. 125. 
Fig. of $, Stand., Exot. Schmett., pi. 57 (1885). 
Larva and Pupa, p. 127. 
I found a full-grown larva of this species at Rondebosch, near Cape Town, 
on the 19th November 1885, and append the following description of it, viz. : — 
Ochre-yellow, with a broad conspicuous median dorsal blackish stripe, 
narrowing toward tail ; on each side a supra-spiracular waved rather indistinct 
waved dusky-grey stripe ; spiracles ringed with blackish ; all the legs and the 
under surface of a very much paler and duller ochre-yellow. Head dark-red, 
set sparsely but generally with short stiff black bristles ; body generally (includ- 
ing legs and two short acute hind ward-pointing projections at tail) set sparsely 
with short whitish bristles, — those on the body planted in regular successive 
transverse lines, which are closer together on the hinder part of each segment. 
Rather broad and flattened dorsally, tapering gradually toward the tail 
from the tenth segment ; head globose, — the next adjoining segment somewhat 
constricted. Length, 2J inches.^ 
This exceedingly sluggish larva was resting near the top of a wooden fence 
(on which I had previously discovered two pupae) ; it seemed about to pupate, 
but did not do so until the 25 th November. The butterfly (a $ ) emerged on 
26th December. 
The fence in question divided a public road from a piece of ground bare 
of vegetation in the immediate neighbourhood of the fence, except for a bank 
recently planted with the Kweek " grass {Stenotaphrum glabrwn), — the plant 
mentioned in the text as conjectured to be a food-plant of Tulhaghia. Long 
and careful search on this bank, however, failed to produce another larva. 
The following description of the pupa is made from three specimens, viz., 
the two found suspended on the fence on 14th and 19th November respec- 
tively, and that of which the larva pupated on 25th November. 
Pale sandy-yellowish, with a generally-distributed pinkish-white bloom ; 
semi-transparent ; wing-cases very finely and indistinctly striolated with short 
grey lines. Numerous small spots and dots of black, of which the following 
are the principal, viz., a median longitudinal dorsal abdominal series, of which 
^ It remains to be seen whether the larva varies irregularly or sexually, or perhaps 
locally, as regards green or ochre-yellow colouring. Mrs. Barber mentions that her pale- 
green larva was much yellower in a younger stage, and certainly all the young ones hatched 
from the eggs laid by the Cape Town 9 mentioned in the text were sandy-yellowish. 
