338 Drs. Dixey and Longstaff’s Observations 
griseus, Fabr., was abundant, and four males were with 
difficulty secured; the South African form of Apis mellifica, 
was also busily at work together with two smaller bees 
(2 2). These last Col. C. T. Bingham has described as a 
new species under the name of Ovratina vittata, so an 
otherwise disappointing day was redeemed. <A specimen 
of the Chafer Oxythyrea marginalis, Schonh., was taken on 
the lavender flowers of a Buddleia near the river, and close 
by a single example of Spindasis mozambica, Bert. On the 
veldt below the big tree, the common but pretty locust 
Catantops melanostictus, Schaum, was very active and 
difficult to secure; in the same place we netted two 
specimens of Teri ias brig igitta, Cram., a species we had not 
met with in Natal. 
RAILWAY JOURNEY FROM JOHANNESBURG TO 
KIMBERLEY. 
September 4th, 1905. 
GLEN SIDING. Lat. 28° 55’ 8. 
On the flowers of a low-growing Senecio (not unlike the 
Oxford squalidus, L.) a wasp was taken, Ammophila 
2 argentea, Brullé, 2, which Col. C. 'T. Bingham says is not 
typical, but possibly a local form of the species ; with this 
was a honey-bee, Apis adansonit, Latr., 9. At this place 
Pyrameis cardui and Colias electra were noted. 
BLOEMFONTEIN. Lat. 29° 7’; alt. 4,500 feet. 
In the station-yard here the last named two butterflies 
were again seen, and a female Synchloé hellica was taken. 
NorvVAL’S Pont, CAPE Cotony. Lat. 30° 38’; 4,000 ft. 
The cosmopolitan Plutella cruciferarum, Zell., came to 
our lights. 
CoOLESBERG JUNCTION. Lat. 30° 44’; alt. 4,370 feet. 
At this station, which one naturally associates with the 
exploits of General French, several moths visited the lights 
of the train. They were the pretty silver-striped Geometer 
Conchia nitidula, Cram.; a Noctua (unnamed); our old 
friend of many lands Nomophila noctwella, Schiff.; and 
three Phycids, two of them being the dingy Microthrix 
insulsella, Rag. 
