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pedunculated wasps Belonogaster praunsi, Kohl (said by 
Col. C. T. Bingham to be not typical); the slender dark- 
blue-winged Huwmenes tinctor, Christ, of both sexes, one 
male specimen, very starved, of Saussure’s variety; the 
dull grey Icaria cincta, Lepel., 2; Pompilus ruficeps, Smith, 
a female; a male Pompilus which is possibly new ; Polistes 
marginalis, Fabr., 3; Larra agilis, Smith, a female, taken 
on a bank of dry earth; a Scoliid, Chalicodoma celocera, 
Smith, a male, taken at the purple flowers along with the 
Xylocope. To these must be added ants from a commu- 
nity of Camponotus maculatus, Fabr., and a fine specimen 
of the coral-red Braconid Jphiaulax whiter, Cameron. 
The handsome Hristalis tentops, Wied., was conspicuous 
among the flies, which were not very numerously repre- 
sented ; another fly to which Col. Yerbury has been able to 
assign a name is Chwxtolyga dasyops, Wied. Other flies 
were ? Syrphus sp., [dia sp., and two Bibio-like Plecia sp., 
which floated in the air almost stationary with their long 
legs hanging down; sweeping yielded a Diopsis, but in 
this case only a solitary example which Mr. Verrall thinks 
distinct from the others. 
The wide-ranging grasshopper Catantops melanostictus, 
Schaum, was abundant. On the leaves of “Pride of 
Madeira” were marshalled a number of immature specimens 
of a gregarious dark orange-striped Acridian, the same 
species that was seen at Bulawayo. 
Although beetles were not numerous in the Park, we 
took, in addition to the Cetoniids previously mentioned, 
the following species:—Macroma cognata, Schonh., a 
handsome dark olive and yellow Cetoniid, flying at 
flowers; a Lycoid, Haplolycus, sp., a Cetoniid, Gametis 
balteata, De Geer, with similar colouring to the last, taken 
flying around or settled on the flowers of the same tree, 
together with a similarly Lycoid-coloured Braconid, Zombrus 
sp.; the Longicorns, Promeces wis, Pascoe, and Alphitopoda 
maculosa, Pascoe, var., by beating; Zrigonopus marginatus, 
Wied., several under stones ; also under a stone the Staph 
Xantholinus hottentotus, Sachse; a Phytophagid not in 
the National Collection, Atechna inenxrabilis, Vogel, var. ; 
Apoderus nigripennis, Fabr. ; the metallic green Colaspo- 
soma flavipes, Har.; the Cassid Aspidomorpha silacea, 
Boh. [ =¢ecta, var. Boh.]; and a weevil, Balaninus apicalis, 
Fahr, var. B., was obtained by beating. 
Two bugs complete the list of insects taken in the Queen’s 
