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SOUTH-AFRICAN LUTTERFLIES. 
species by the subsequent discovery and reaiing to their perfect state of 
quite similar ones taken on Ficus Natalensis 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 larvse, 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 completely 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 pupae which were disclosed at large on the plants were 
much greener and more like the little figs than those which resulted from 
larvae kept captive in a dimly-lighted breeding-cage. 
M. ficedala 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 extremity of that Colony. 
Localities of Myrina ficecUda. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Knysna. Oudtshoorn [Adams). 
1). Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. King William's Town." 
— W. S. M. D'Urban. Fort Warden, Kei River (/. H. 
Boivker). 
D. Kaffraria Proper, — Bashee River (/. H. BowJcer). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (/. H. BowJcer). Lower Umko- 
mazi." — J. H. Bowker. Udlands Mission Station. Great 
Noodsberg. 
h. Upper Districts. — Biggarsberg H. BoivJcer). Pietermaritz- 
burg (Windham). 
K. Transvaal. — Lydeuburg District {T. Aijres). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Congo : Ambriz (^Mrs. Monteiro). 
192. (2.) Myrina dermaptera, (Wallengren). 
$ Myrina n. sp., Angas, Kafirs. lUustr., pi. xxx. f. 9 (1849). 
$ Loxura dermaptera, Wallengr,, K. S. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857, — Lep. 
Rhop. Caffr., p. 34. 
9 (as (J ) Loxura deimaptera, Hewits., 111. D. Lep., pi. 4, ff. 3, 4 (1863). 
$ Loxura dermaptera. Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 220, n. 126 (1866). 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 2- 3 J lin. ; ($) i in. 2- 5 J lin. 
^ Black, ivith very large basi-discal space of intense metallic-blue 
(with a greenish surface lustre in some lights) in loth 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- 
iving : blue occupies entire disc and discoidal cell, leaving costa and 
