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slightly tiDged with yellowisli (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, f inch. (From notes 
and drawings by Mr. J. P. Mansel Weale of specimens from near King 
William's Town.) — See Plate 2, ff. 3. 
Pupa. — 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 media,n ridge a series of three white, 
black-edged, broad, blunt, tubercular processes, slanting forward. 
Wing-covers black with a greenish tinge. Abdomen dorsally w^hite 
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 forw^ard-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 s^Decimens from near King 
William's Town ; and drawings by Captain H. 0. Harford of a speci- 
men found at Pinetown, Natal.) — See Plate 2, ff. ^a. 
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 
Mrs. 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 olemfolms 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 1877 : "The chrysalides both of Agathina and Poiypca 
[-RupTpellii) very nauch resemble bird-droppings with mistletoe seeds intermixed." 
