126 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the change of locality altering the character of the flora 

 throughout; before entering the greenland, however, two "Mother- 

 o'-Pearls " fall to our lot on the edge of the bush, and some 

 insignificant Hesperidce. 



We descend the hill pretty rapidly, and on our way take for 

 the first time Nymplialis Candiope. We both of us mistook it 

 for Philognoma Varanes till netted, — a very common error, — 

 although he is really still more like N. Pelias than the other. A 

 small ravine crossed, and a patch of scattered bush is examined, 

 where Neptis Goochii and A'". Saclava are both taken ; the former 

 on a Mimosa spray in the bush, the latter on an ironwood. Here 

 also we find two specimens settled in the shade of Argyris 

 Latonaria, a white geometer, with jewelled spots on its wings of 

 great beauty ; an insect that is abundant in Natal, and is common 

 also in India. 



From the bit of bush we emerge, somewhat hot, on a clearing, 

 now being hoed for sugar-cane, but originally planted in coffee, 

 an evidence of the vicious taste of the Longicorn, Leuconota Capa, 

 which has cost the colony many thousands of pounds by its 

 depredations in the coffee trees, which it attacks in preference to 

 its own bush-food. I suppose in the gross, without exaggeration, 

 at least .^fi 100,000 has been sunk in cofi"ee planting in Natal, and 

 has all been eaten up by this insect. 



On the edge of the clearing we take N. Brutus again, sucking gum 

 on the sunny side of Mimosa : as the branch is low and not much 

 protected by thorns, we take him easily. I think, too, about this 

 time — it is nearly 8 p.m. — the insects which have been sipping 

 freely are stupid, if not tipsy, and do not seem so active or quick 

 as earlier in the day. The lower edge, in the rank weeds of the 

 clearing opening out on to grass land, yields Anthocaris lone, 

 several Colias Electra, two or three Pieridce, and Ismene Vahnaran, 

 on Labiate flowers. Crossing the grass land we get Geometers, 

 put up as we pass, and also take Hypanis lUthyia, which is 

 present in both varieties, in great numbers. A big Lihcllida 

 Mynneleon flops hurriedly across us and is captured, very 

 beautiful of colouring and marking; and another is missed and 

 marked down, but we do not follow it. 



At the bottom of the grass we come into an avenue of Bois- 

 Noirs, leading up to the neighbouring planter's house. This 

 avenue is an unfailing locality for Nymphalidee ; and as we 



