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reticulata is far from constant. I have three normal specimens, six have vein 9 
absent; two have vein 9 stalked with 10, this stalk being very short; two 
specimens have veins 8, 9, 10 from a point. In panda two specimens are normal 
and five have vein 9 absent. Evidently the presence of vein 10 and the well- 
developed frenulum on both sexes would be the only characters that keep this 
genus out of the Striphnopterygidae. The study of the caterpillar, especially 
that of the first instar, may throw some light on the true position of this genus. 
The caterpillars live in colonies, which again is not recorded from any other 
Notodontids, I think; they make large nests of silk, in which they live in the 
larval stages as well as during pupation. The nest may contain nearly 300 
specimens and is usually heavily parasitized by flies or wasps. A Phycitid 
(. Zophodiopsis hyaenella ) is also supposed to invest the nest of panda. 
Only two species are found so far in South Africa, and may be separated 
as follows: 
la. A brown line on fore wing from near base along inner margin to 
medial line, and another from inner margin near base to median 
line just below lower median .... reticulata 
b. Fore wing with area from base to median line entirely white, except 
along costa, where there is a brown edging as in reticulata panda 
Anaphe Reticulata. 
(PI. XI, figs. 9-16; PI. XII, fig. 1.) 
Anaphe reticulata Wlk. Cat. iv. p. 856 (1855). 
Wlshm. Trans. Lin. Soc. Lond. 2. 11. p. 422 (1885). 
Dist. A.M.N.H. 6. xx. p. 204 (1897). 
Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 90, PI. VIII, fig. 6 (1903). 
Arctiomorpha euprepiaeformis Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. fig. 434 (1856). 
This species also makes nests as recorded of panda. I found such a nest at 
Barberton and bred several specimens out of it, together with specimens of a 
Hymenopterous and a Dipterous parasite. 
My other specimens are from S. Rhodesia (Salisbury, Umvuma); Transvaal 
(Three Sisters, Kourulene) and Natal (Umkomaas). The parasites emerged in 
Oct. and the moth came out in Dec. 
The Rhodesia specimens have the dark stripes of the fore wing almost black 
and not brown as in the Transvaal and Natal specimens. 
Anaphe Panda. 
Anaphe panda Boisd. Voy. Delegorgue en Afr. Austr. tom. 11. p. 600 (1847). 
Wlshm. Trans. Lin. Soc. Lond. 2. 11. p. 425, PI. 44, 45, fig. 7 
(1884). 
(Larva) Carl Fromholz. Berl. entom. Zeits. Bd. xvn. Heft 1, 
pp. 9-13 (1883). 
I never found the nest of this species, but caught my specimens by lamp- 
light at Three Sisters, Sarnia, Umkomaas, in Jan. 
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