and Captures in South Africa in 1905. 311 
the same were common inside the seed-vessels together 
with numbers of a fetid brown bug not yet named and 
what we took to be beetle larva. A third bug, of a pale 
scarlet colour when alive, frequented the same Solanwm. 
The few flowers that were out yielded nothing but a 
honey-bee and an Hmpis sp. 
At Clifton, Camps Bay, on the under-cliff above the 
dazzling white beach, we took off the flowers of a shrubby 
Senecto-like Composite the small green Longicorn, Promeces 
linearis, Linn., the small bronzy bee, Hulictus jucundus, 
Smith, 9, and Apis mellifica, 2 5. 
A small Carabid, Platynus rufipes, Dej., found under a 
stone, completed our short list. As we often experienced 
afterwards, the South-east Trade brought up clouds and 
gave us a dull afternoon, so that collecting was practically 
over at an early hour. 
Port EvizABeTH, ALGOA Bay, CaPE Cotony., 
Lat, 34° 5. Sea level. August 11th. 
The steamer did not give us a very long time at this 
place. After an early breakfast we took the train to 
ZWAARTKOPS, some seven miles to the northward. 
The coast here is flat and fringed with sand-hills; by 
the railway the country is sandy and heathy; on the south 
side of the river its delta forms a level plain perhaps a 
mile wide between the sand-hills and the railway, this is 
diversified by brackish swamps and intersected by streams. 
On the drier portions of this plain Termitaria are numerous, 
from 1 foot to 2} feet high, and 2 to 3 feet across; they 
are smooth and hard on the surface as if “ rendered ” with 
cement, many-chambered within. One long ridge of sand 
was covered with thorny shrubs. ‘The most conspicuous 
plant was a tall Aloe (?arborescens, ? ferox), 6 or 8 
feet high in full flower, but there were also at least two 
species of Cotyledon |Echeveria], and several species of 
Mesembryanthemum. Low growing Huphorbias were many 
and varied, one appeared to be absolutely stemless. There 
was also an ivy-leaved Pelargoniwm. A fresh easterly 
breeze swept over the open ground and added much to the 
difficulty of catching butterflies. 
The males of Syichloé hellica, Linn., were rather common, 
flying fast, but occasionally settling ; four specimens were 
secured. Of Lewceronia buquetii, Boisd., at least three 
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