slightly tinged with yellowish (and having the fore-wings almost as 

 white as in the $) to having the whole surface of a dull orange-ochreous 

 (deepening into reddish at bases). The most richly and deeply tinted 

 specimens that I have seen are from Delagoa Bay. 



Larva. — Transversely barred with alternate dull red and blackish 

 bands speckled with yellow ; and clothed generally with fine grey hair 

 of some length ; a yellowish-white lower lateral stripe on each side, 

 from second to last segment immediately above the legs. Head black, 

 varied with yellow down the middle. Length, J inch. (From notes 

 and drawings by Mr. J. P. Mansel Weale of specimens from near King 

 William's Town.)— See Plate 2, ff. 3. 



Plta. — White, more or less tinged with cream-colour in parts, and 

 curiously marked with black. Head with a long frontal horn, curved 

 upward, cream-coloured. Thorax cream-coloured dorsally, but with 

 a broad black marking along the middle ; a small anterior acute black 

 tubercle on each side, and on median ridge a series of three white, 

 black-edged, broad, blunt, tubercular processes, slanting forward. 

 Wing-covers black with a greenish tinge. Abdomen dorsally white 

 and black, the latter forming a large lozenge-shaped marking (widest 

 on seventh segment) acuminate anteriorly on fifth and posteriorly on 

 ninth segment ; on each side a row of small black spots ; below these 

 a broad black stripe ; along median ridge a series of seven small white 

 black-edged tubercles, of which the second, third, and fourth are 

 blunter and larger than the rest ; both the sixth and seventh segments 

 bearing on each side a large, broad, acute, slightly forward-curved, 

 tooth-like white projection ; anal extremity very pointed. Length, f 

 inch. Attached by anal extremity and thoracic silken girth to web of 

 silk spread on a leaf. (From notes and drawings by Mr. J. P. Mansel 

 Weale, and drawings by Mrs. Barber, of specimens from near King 

 William's Town ; and drawings by Captain H. C. Harford of a speci- 

 men found at Pinetown, Natal.)— See Plate 2, fF. 3«. 



The singular pupa was sent to Mrs. Barber in December 1868 by 

 Miss Fanny Bowker, who discovered it near King William's Town, 

 and the drawings reproduced in Plate 2 were received by me from 

 ]\frs. Barber during the same month. Captain Harford's drawings 

 reached me the following year, and Mr. Mansel Weale's in 1873. 

 Mr. Mansel Weale discovered the larva, and wrote on 20th March 

 1873: "I have found Loranthus olecefolius swarming with the larvge 

 of Agatliina ; they follow each other like a regiment in line, or like the 

 Processionary Moth." 



The pupa, from its black-and-white colouring, and particularly 

 from its attachment to a leaf covered just about it with white silk, 

 very probably presents, at a little distance, the appearance of a bird's 

 dropping ; ^ but on a closer inspection the dorsal aspect is by no means 



^ Mr. Weale wrote in February 1S77 : "The chrysalides both of Agathina and Poppca 

 ( = Rii2^pellii) very much resemble bird-droppings with mistletoe seeds intermixed." 



