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RAILWAY JOURNEY FROM KIMBERLEY TO BULAWAYO. 
September 7th and 8th, 1905. 
TAUNGS, BRITISH BECHUANALAND. Lat. 27° 33'S. Alt. 
3,090 feet. 
The very distinct Catocaline Noctua Chalciope rivulata, 
Hmpsn., and a Tinea, not as yet determined, came to light 
in the train. 
MocuuDI, BECHUANALAND. Lat. 24° 22’S, Alt. 3,100 feet. 
Two flies which would appear to be the too familiar 
Musca domestica, Linn., were taken near the station, as 
well as an obscure beetle found under a stone. 
It was somewhere near this place that we entered the 
forest characteristic of this part of Africa, an open or easily 
penetrable growth, with deciduous trees of moderate size 
having a tendency to be flat-topped. 
ARTESIA, Lat. circa 24° 5S. Alt. 3,100 feet. 
A female of the very African-looking Lycenid, Zeritis 
damarensis, 'Trim., as well as a specknen of the wide- 
ranging Lycxna betica, Linn., also a female, were netted ; 
the hasty turning over of a few stones yielded the penta- 
tomid bug Diploxys acanthura,W estw.; four ants, Camponotus 
maculatus, Fabr.; also a dead beetle with a very hard 
carapace, Anomalipus sp., represented in the British 
Museum collection, but without a name; as well as a 
weevil, Sparticerus sp. 
MAHALAPYE. Lat. 23° 3’S. Alt. 3,300 feet. 
Here we entered the tropics, an event that was signalised 
by the capture of a male Catopsilia florella, Fabr., and the 
determination of its sweet scent. 
PALAPYE RoaD Station. Lat. 22° 44’ S. Alt. 3,010 feet. 
The beetle Xenitenus dilucidus, Pér., was taken in 
the train. 
SEpuL . Lat, 22°°27°S: 
The electric lights of the train attracted a number of- 
insects while stopping at this station, among those that 
were secured were the very small drab Noctua, Entlemma 
