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Guér., was seen on the wing, it settled on the light grey 
road of the Compound and disappeared, being so exactly 
the colour of the dust that it was most easily found by 
feeling with the hand! 
At the WESSELTON MINE, on a weedy piece of waste 
ground, two specimens of a Lycenid, so worn as to be 
scarcely recognizable, were netted ; as well as two of a very 
elegant Bombylius, Systwchus sp., which was only to be 
seen on the wing as the light caught its long white 
pubescence. 
A dull, cheerless morning was spent on the GoLr LINKs, 
in sight of the Memorial to the Honoured Dead. There 
seemed to be nothing to do but turn over stones, which, 
though doubtless an annoyance to the golfers, afforded 
shelter to a number of Arthropoda. The most interesting 
beetle was Graphipterus cordiger, Klug, a quite soft insect 
of a drab colour bearing a black mark upon its elytra which 
has been variously compared to a heart, a fiddle and a tennis- 
racquet; of this we secured eight examples. Of the weevil 
Sparticerus rudis, Fahr., which was very common, we took 
seven specimens, again noticing its resemblance to the 
red soil of the veldt. It may be here mentioned that the 
general colour of the soil at Kimberley, as at Johannes- 
burg, Pretoria, Durban, and indeed most of the places that 
we visited, is red; the white dust that is so disagreeable 
in the town is derived from the mining refuse, and a very 
similar dust is met with near the gold mines of the Rand. 
Among the common 8. rudis, Fahr., was found another 
Sparticerus which shammed death, this species is not 
represented in the British Museum collection; we also took 
two Hpisus bohemani, Auriv. The Carabide were repre- 
sented by one Bwoglossa melanaria, Boh., three Harpalus 
hybridus, Boh., all females, and five H. affinis, Peér. 
Dead examples of the Heteromera, Psammodes scabricollis, 
Gerst., and P. vialis, 2? Burch., with other remains showed 
that it was not the season for that genus, and a large 
beetle-larva which was unearthed pointed to the same 
conclusion. 
With the beetles were several bugs and an ant, Apheno- 
gaster barbara, Linn., var. capensis, Mayr., accompanied by 
a number of “silver fish” (Zhysanwra). 
