144 SOUTir-AFRICAX liUTTEKFIJES. 



species by the subsequent discovery and reaiing to their perfect state of 

 quite similar ones taken on Ficus Ncdalensis by Mrs. Barber near Grahams- 

 town. In 1870 I had the pleasure of visiting Mrs. Barber at Highlands, 

 and gladly took the opportunity of studying and rearing the larva?, the food- 

 plants of which were growing against the stoep of the house. There is 

 no doubt that their peculiar colouring is highly protective, agreeing very 

 thoroughly with that of the terminal green shoots, the bract and occasional 

 withered portions of which are ferruginous ; while the conspicuous white 

 spots most com^jletely resemble the drops of milk-like sap that exude from 

 the stems and leaves on the slightest wound. Moreover, both the larva 

 (when in a slightly contracted position) and the pupa bear a very strong 

 resemblance to the small, rough, ashy-varied fruits of their food-plant. I 

 found that those pup?e which were disclosed at large on the plants were 

 much greener and more like the little figs than those which resulted from 

 larvJE kept captive in a dimly-lighted breeding-cage. 



M. fieedala does not seem to be often met with in Natal. I took a few 

 in the inland districts, and Colonel Bowker has forwarded two or three from 

 the coast, and two from quite the northern exti-emity of that Colony. 



]jocalities of Myrina ficedida. 



I. South Africa. 

 B, Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Knysna. Oudtshoorn (Adams), 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. " King William's Town." 

 — AV. S. M. D'Urban. Fort Warden, Kei River (/. H. 

 Bovlcer). 



D. Kaffraria Projier. — Bashee River (/. H. Bowlier). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (/. H. BoicJcer). " Lower Umko- 

 mazi." — J. H. Bowker. Udlands Mission Station. Great 

 Noodsberg. 



h. Upper Districts. — Biggarsberg (J. II. Bowlier). Pietermaritz- 

 burg {Windham). 

 K. Transvaal. — Ly den burg District [T. A/jres). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Congo : Ambriz (Mrs. Monteiro). 



192. (2.) Myrina dermaptera, (Wallengren). 



5 Mijrina n. s^J., Angas, Kafirs. Ulustr., pi. xxx. f. 9 (1849). 



$ Loxura dermaptera, Wallengr., K. S. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857, — Lep. 



Rhop. Caffr., p. 34. 

 9 (as $ ) Loxura dermaptera, Hewits., 111. D. Lep., pi. 4, ff. 3, 4 (1863). 

 $ Loxura dermaptera. Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 220, n. 126 (1866). 



Exp. al., Q) I in. 2-3 1 liu. ; ($) i in. 2-5!" lin. 



^ Blade, with very large basi-discal space of intense mctaUic-Uue 

 {with a greenish surface lustre in some lights) in hath wings. Fore-wing : 

 blue occupies inner margin from base to beyond middle, forming a large 

 semicircle, the upper part of which almost fills discoidal cell. Hind- 

 2ving : blue occupies entire disc and discoidal cell, leaving costa and 



