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Show LT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT OX [Nov. 4, Family S phingid.®. 2. P hilampelus meg .e r a . (Plate X X V I. figs. 3, 4, larva; 5, pupa.) Sphinx megcera Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 492. n. 19 (1758) ; Mus. Ulr. p. 358 (1764); id. Clerck, leones, t. 47. fig. 2 (1759). Philampelus megcera Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. viii. p. 179. n. 11 (1856). Euchloron megcera Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 214 (1875). D escription.- Larva. Head green, body pale yellowish green, irrorated with minute black spots and strigse; an indistinct pale subdorsal line, defined on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd somites by fuscous lines, and on the remaining somites to the 11th by paired black spots at the junctions of the somites, and on the 11th somite by three triangular fuscous spots situated at the base of the horn. On 4th somite a pale greenish-white " eye-spot " defined outwardly by a black circle; a dorsal fuscous line from head becoming obsolescent on 5th somite ; horn short and yellow ; legs and claspers concolorous with the rest of the body; spiracles fuscous. Before pupating the larva assumes a pinkish-brown hue (as shown in PI. X X V I. fig. 4). Feeds on common vine. Pupa. Dark red-brown, profusely mottled with fuscous spots and strigfe, formed amongst leaves on the surface of the ground in a similar manner to those of species of Chcerocampci. The various larval stages are completed in about one month, and in February and March only fourteen days are passed in the pupal stage. Mr. J. F. Quekett, Curator of the Durban Museum, who has reared examples of this species, and to whom I am indebted for these observations, informs me that the species is probably single-brooded, as he has never heard of, or come across, a second brood. The perfect insect is not commonly met with at Durban, but may, perhaps, be sometimes overlooked owing to its superficial resemblance to the common Chcerocampa idricus Drury, although the latter is a much smaller species. Family E upterotid.e . 3. R abdosia clio, n. sp. (Plate X X V I. fig. 2.) D escription..-Male. Head and thorax reddish brown; abdomen and wings pale ochreous brown : fore wing crossed bv a broad dark postmedial fascia; veins whitish, defined inferiorly by some black irrorations; a marginal series of pale wedge-shaped (cuneiform) lunules formed by the junction of the pale lines defining the veins, their apices reaching the margin of the wing |