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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Desmeocraera Atriguttata. 
(PI. IV, fig. 8.) *’ 
Stauropus atriguttata Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 465 (1910). 
I have <£s and $s in my collection from Durban caught in Jan. and May. 
Sir George Hampson only described the $ of this species. The £ is much 
smaller, 44—50 mm., but is otherwise identical with the $. Both sexes have a 
green patch of hairs and scales on the upper side of the last abdominal 
segments, a character not mentioned in the description. 
Larva feeds on Mimusops obovata Sond., Chrysophyllum viridifolium Wood, 
and C. natalense Sond, pupates in a brittle earthen cocoon (E. E. Platt). 
The third joint of the palpus is longer than in interpellatrix . 
Desmeocraera Calliope. 
(PI. IV, figs. 4, 5.) 
Stauropus calliope Hmpsn, A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 466 (1910). 
Desmeocraera ianthina Aur. iv. 
Only $s in my collection, all from Durban in J an., March, J une, November. 
The spurs of the hind legs, especially the terminal pair, are shorter, more 
curved at the point and the toothed ridge is not visible; the third joint of the 
palpi also seems to be absent in this species. 
Larva feeds on Chrysophyllum viridifolium Wood (H. A. Green). 
Spins a cocoon in chinks of bark, some distance from the ground (E. E. 
Platt) . 
Desmeocraera Vernalis. 
(PI. IV, fig. 6.) 
Desmeocraera vernalis Dist. A.M.N.H. 6. xx. p. 205 (1897). 
Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 89, PI. IV, fig. 1. 
My specimens agree well with the quite good figure and the rather poor 
description and I have seen a specimen identified by Distant himself. I find 
that the yellow scales mixed with black scales on the antemedial and post- 
medial lines, as mentioned in the key, are very reliable characters. In the grey 
variety these scales are also present though the lines themselves are very 
indistinct in that form. The general ground colour of the fore wings is not green, 
but greyish. 
Hab. In coll. Transvaal Museum from Durban in Sept, and Nov., and 
from Pretoria in Jan. 
Larva feeds on Combretum apiculatum Sond., pupates in a brittle earthen 
cocoon (E. E. Platt). 
In coll. Janse from Durban (March); Karkloof (Jan.); Waterval onder 
(Nov.); Barberton (Nov.); Eshowe (Zululand) (Jan.). 
Desmeocraera Basalis. 
Desmeocraera basalis Dist. A.M.N.H. 7. iv. p. 361 (1899). 
Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 89, PI. IV, fig. 14. 
Three specimens, one in the Transvaal Museum and two in my own col- 
lection, agree well with the figure except that the sub-basal lines do not go 
deeply inwards at vein 1 b as shown in the illustration. One of my specimens 
