378 Drs. Dixey and Longstaft’s Observations 
The flowers of a yellow Chrysanthemum in the garden 
of the Humewood Hotel attracted a certain number of 
insects: Apis adansonit, Latr.,3; the active green Longicorn 
Promeces linearis, Linn.; and the Hopliine Dieranocnemus 
Ssquamosus, Burm., the last-named in abundance buried in 
the flowers (and in other Composite); but it was noted 
that their hind-legs did not mimic jaws. 
CarE Town. SECOND VISIT. 
Lat. 34° 8. October 2, 3. 
One day was devoted to the ascent of TABLE MOUNTAIN 
by way of The Gorge. 
Most of the collecting was along the road at about 1,200 
feet above the sea. Very few butterflies were seen, a few 
Pyrameis cardut, Linn., also a few Pseudonympha vigilans, 
Trim., and a few of the Lycenid Cacyreus palemon, Cram. 
The fine black and white Carabid, Anthea 10-guttata, 
Fabr., was not uncommon running on the path;* when 
handled it emitted a very pungent odour (one specimen 
of this beetle was taken in a pine wood just above the 
outskirts of the town). Under stones five specimens of 
Microlestia tabida, Fabr., were taken. But the greatest 
numbers of beetles were found on, or actually 7m composite 
flowers, especially those of a species of Senecio. The 
most abundant species was the Hopliine Heterochelus 
forcipatus, Burm., a species in which the posterior legs 
are enormously developed in the male sex; no females 
were seen. With these were a few (3 th 1 2) of the 
allied Dichelus dentipes, Fabr., of which the males have 
large posterior legs. There were also a number of Hneyo- 
phanes sp. (unnamed in Brit. Mus.) of both sexes. All 
these were buried in the disks of the flower with only 
the hind-legs protruding.t A specimen of the hairy 
Hopliine Anison, yx lynz, Fabr., was taken in another 
composite flower (? Gazania sp.). 
By shaking the flowers of a Senecio (2) into the net the 
following were obtained: Ootheca tricolor, Fabr., two; 
? Hedy bins sp., Six; a very small weevil, an Erirrhinid of 
uncertain genus, one; Oosonvus sp., seven; several Telephort 
and a Cricket. 
* Not so swift in its movements as the Biskra species A. sea- 
maculata, Fabr. Probably the struggle for existence is not so severe 
on the Cape Peninsula as on the Sahara.—G. B. L. 
+ See Lonestarr, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1906, pp. 93-95 
