364 Drs. Dixey and Longstaff’s Observations 
CrocopDILE Pooxts Station. About Lat. 24° 40’ S. 
3,300 feet. 
A beetle, Zophosis sp., not in the British Museum 
Collection, was taken running rapidly over the sand, which 
when alive it exactly matched in colour.* 
Ootst STATION. Lat. 25° 0’S. 3,620 feet. 
Axiocerces harpax, Fabr., a female taken and another 
seen at a shrub with flowers forming yellow tails. A bug 
and a small Lady-bird, Scymnus sp., taken at Combretum 
flowers. 
Pirsant Station. Lat. 25° 26'S. 4,420 feet. 
Semiothisa brongusaria, Walk., a boarmid, at light in 
the train. 
The two beetles Lyctus sp. and Bostrychus brunneus, 
Murray, a Malacoderm, were taken this day somewhere 
in British Bechuanaland, but the exact locality was not 
recorded. 
MAFEKING. Lat. 25° 56'S. 4,190 feet. 
Sterrha sacrarta, Linn. (1), Crambus tenurstriga, Hmpsn. 
(1), and two other moths, taken at lamps in the town. 
The S. African specimens of the first-named are much less 
beautiful than the European, as they lack the crimson. 
WARRENTON STATION. 28° 11'S. 3,930 feet. 
Sept. 28, 1905. Hesperia (Syrichthus) spio, Linn. 
= vindex, Cram.], one at water. 
PoKWANI. 28° 43'S. 3,650 feet. 
The ubiquitous Utetheisa (Deiopeia) pulchella, Linn. 
Sept. 23,1905. ORANGE RIVER STATION, Cape Colony, 
lat. 29° 38’, S.; alt. 3,540 feet, an ichneumon, and at 
KRANSKUIL, lat. 29° 51’ S.; alt. 3,700 feet, a number of 
Phycids were taken at the train lights. 
* Many black beetles cover themselves with fine particles of the 
sand on which they live, and so easily escape observation. This I 
frequently noted in 1905 among the many /eteromera that are found 
on the outskirts of the Sahara at Biskra. Whether the fine particles 
merely fill in the interstices of the sculpture, or are attached by a 
secretion, I was not able to determine, but in any case they were 
easily rubbed off in the killing-bottle, or when handled.—G. B. L. 
