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Show 1902.] SOUTH-AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 307 the extremity of the wing is darker beyond these lunules, and also near the base between veins 1 and 2 : hind wing with marginal lunules similar to those on the fore wing but paler and more indistinct. Cilia red-brown. The specimen figured was reared from a larva in Pietermaritzburg in 1899, but the notes on its transformations were subsequently lost. Family N octuid.e . Subfamily Q uadrifin.e . 4. D eriialeipa daseia, n. sp. (Plate X X V I. fig. 1.) D escription.-Male. Head and thorax reddish brown ; abdomen scarlet below, fuscous above. Fore wing reddish purple-brown, much irrorated with darker brown especially along the costal margin; a short subbasal dark line ; a straight outwardly oblique antemedial line defined with dark fuscous outwardly; reniform large and dark, ringed with fuscous; an outwardly oblique post-meclial line defined outwardly by a dark fuscous line; an irregular submarginal line of minute black spots between the veins. Hind wing apically and outwardly scarlet, inwardly black, the abdominal margin being fringed with a lateral tuft of long ochreous hairs. Underside scarlet, reniform black. Female. Fore wing similar to that of the male but paler; hind wing with the black inner area divided into a median patch and a short submarginal fascia, the latter not reaching the outer margin of the wing near the anal angle, as in the male; no lateral tufts of long hairs on the abdominal margins. Underside as in the male. This species presents considerable analogy to the well-known Indian species Lagoptera juno Dalman ; the coloration being somewhat similar, and the lateral tufts of long hairs on the hind wing of the male being identical. This moth is a day-fiier, and the writer has taken both sexes flying in brilliant sunshine in the covert known as " the Town Bush " near Pietermaritzburg, Natal, at about 3000 feet elevation in January. E XP LAN A T IO N OF PLATE X X V I . Fig. 1. Dermaleipa daseia, male, p. 307. 2. Pabdosia clic, male, p. 306. 3. Pkilampclus megcera, larva, second last skin, p. 30G. 4. Ditto. Full-fed, just before pupating. 5. Ditto. Pupa. 6. Papilio dardanus, larva, early stage, p. 304. 7. Ditto. Larva, full-fed. 8. Ditto. Pupa, dorsal view. 9. Ditto. Pupa, ventral view. 10. Ditto. Pupa, side view. 11. Ditto. Head of larva with tentacles protruded. 12. Ditto. Female form bred = cenea Stoll. 13. Ditto. Female form bred = var. of P. Mppocoon Fabricius. 2 0 * |