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Acridians of the colour of dry grass were taken, also a 
beetle Scaptobius natalensis, Boh., one, and the Hete- 
romeron Opatrum ? arenariwm, Fabr., six. Several speci- 
mens of the ant Pheidole irritans, Smith, were taken, also 
some Termites, two workers and two soldiers of the same 
community. The former when taken were carrying bits 
of grass and leaves, when brought back to the hotel they 
were dead and partly mutilated, ? by the soldiers in the 
same pill-box. The soldiers, on the contrary, reached home 
alive and pugnacious, for they would grasp the point of 
the forceps and allow themselves to be lifted off the 
ground without letting go. 
August 24, 1905——The next forenoon we ascended 
Hlangwane, the hill commanding the whole position, 
which unfortunately Buller did not occupy on December 
15th, 1899. Again we saw no butterflies, and this morning 
we did not even get a moth! Under cow-dung on the 
plain two specimens of a dung-beetle were found, Hrato- 
gnathus natalensis, Pér., and under stones, chiefly on the 
hill, we found an Omostropus, which M. Péringuey says 
is new; an immature bug and sundry ants, to wit, the 
small Pheidole irritans,Smith, of which the workers are very 
tiny ; P. megacephala, Fabr., well deserving its name, and 
the big black Mesoponera caffraria, Smith; also a Blatta, 
sp., and an Ant-lion. Near the top of the hill a large 
family of the Cockroach, Deropeltis erythrocephala, Fabr., 
was found under a stone. 
Under stones in and among the Boer trenches a number 
of large scorpions were found, olive-coloured, with testaceous 
rings, the large joint of the chele and tip of the tail pale 
testaceous, paler beneath. Other dwellers under stones 
were very young snakes, a nearly globular toad which 
squeaked piteously when taken up, and a gecko. 
A drive to Hart’s Hill in the afternoon made one realize 
completely what is meant by “carriage exercise,” for the 
road is probably the worst that we ever traversed. It 
proved more interesting from the point of view of Military 
History than that of Entomology, nevertheless at the 
bottom of the Hill we kicked up Sterrhanthia lineata, 
Warr., a brownish Geometer near Sterrha sacraria, Linn. ; 
on the slopes, we took under stones Harpalus capicola, 
Dej., $; Paderus crassus, Boh.; a “Staph” represented both 
in the General Collection at South Kensington and in the 
Sharp Collection, but in both unnamed; the big ant 
