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SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 
I 
Plate I. fig. 3. ■ 
I describe this curious larva and very remarkable pupa from the sketches 1 
and notes of Mr. W. D. Gooch, who reared the butterfly in Natal. He ' 
observes that one of the caterpillars, in the absence of a proper supply of its | 
food-plant, devoured a chrysalis of its own species. I 
This Planema is nearly related to the West-African P. Eurijta (Linn.), | 
especially as regards the $ . The ^ Aganice is, however, a smaller and very 
differently coloured insect : Euryfa ^ (in all its variations) being dull- 
brown, with the fore-wing band dull-red, while the hind-wing has no distinct 
band, but only a general dull-red suffusion from the base. The 9 Aganice 
chiefly differs from the $ Euryta in its much narrower white bar in the 
fore-wing. In both sexes the basal spots of the hind-wing are smaller in 
Aganice, and differently arranged as regards the outer row of them, which is 
straight across, instead of being strongly curved as in Euryta. 
This is a thoroughly sylvan butterfly, keeping closely to woods and their 
immediate outskirts. It is a higher flyer than most AcrceincE, and delights j 
to sail across clearings after the manner of Amawis Eclieria, settling quite I 
in the same way, with the wings closed and hanging down, at the end of 
some overhanging branchlet or twig. I met with it only in the neighbour- 
hood of D' Urban, once in July 1865, and frequently in February and April 
1867. It is there accompanied by two rare mimicking species, Pseudacrcea \ 
Tarqiiinia, Trim., which closely resembles the $ , and P. imitator, Trim., 
which even more accurately copies both sexes. At the end of 1879 and begin- 
ning of 1880, Colonel Bowker met with the paired sexes on two occasions, 
and sent me the specimens. Unlike its congeners, P. Aganice seems to be 
very constant in both sexes, alike in pattern and coloration. The ^ when 
worn has the bands whitish instead of pale-yellow. 
Localities of Planema Aganice. 
I. South Africa. 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Igora Piver Mouth (/. H, Boioker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Umgeni Pailway Station (/. 11. 
Boivker). 
II. Other African Pegions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — ''Angola {Pogge)^^ [? s^. ead] — Dewitz. 
Genus PARDOPSIS, N.G. 
Acrcea, Fab. (part), Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag., &c. (1833); 
Trimen, Phop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 105 (1862). 
Imago. — Head rather wide ; palpi slightly swollen, very hairy 
(especially beneath), the terminal joint not so small as in Acrcea, and 
set with hairs ; antennce long, more than half the length of the fore- 
wings, with an abrupt, broad, flattened, spoon-shaped club. 
Thorax very short and narrow. Fore-wings shaped much as in. 
typical Acrcea, but rather more prominent apically ; costal nervure 
short, terminating on costa beyond middle ; first subcostal nervule 
