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speaking, an abomination; such improvements as arc 

 being advised are being prompted by commercial con- 

 siderations while no provisions are made or precautions 

 taken to facilitate the insect problem. In fact, present 

 day wattle growing is a good example of intensive cul- 

 ture without the intensive cultivation which should 

 accompany it and an attempt towards a satisfactory 

 solution of the insect problem will have to go hand in 

 hand with considerable changes in the present methods 

 of wattle cultivation. 



The Carahidae of Salishury, Mashonaland. 

 By Rev. J. O'Neil, S.J., F.E.S. 



In his ^' Descriptive Catalogue of the Carabidae of 

 South Africa'', published in 1896, Dr. Peringuey de- 

 scribed or recorded 103 species of Carabidae from Salis- 

 bury. His three Supplements, which appeared in 1898, 

 1904 and 1908, added another 43 species to those known 

 to occur in this locality , and Mr. C. N. Barker described 

 seven more in the " Annals of the Durban Museum '', 

 issued 31st March of the present year (1919). 



After collecting for over six years in and around 

 Salisbury I am able to state that the total of 153 

 recorded species represents less than one half of those 

 that have been found here. To my certain knowledge no 

 fewer than 334 species of the Family occur in this neigh- 

 bourhood, and all of these, with only about a dozen excep- 

 tions, I have taken here myself. They belong to 98 

 different genera, and to 30 of the 34 Tribes that have 

 representatives in South Africa. A certain number I 

 have been unable to identify from Peringuey's descrip- 

 tions. These are probably undescribed species, which I 

 intend to describe as soon as I am able to ascertain with 

 reasonable certainty that they are new. 



