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KIMBERLEY, GRIQUALAND WEST. 
Lat. 28° 43'S. Altitude 4,010 feet. Sept. 5-7, 1905. 
The Diamond City with its white dust (in striking con- 
trast to the red of the Golden City) did not impress one as 
a good locality, moreover we had but little spare time, and 
the weather, for the most part cloudy, was unfavourable. 
At KENILWORTH the weevil Cleonus mucidus, Gerst., was 
beaten from Senecio, and two dead Heteromera, Psammodes 
vialis, ? Burch., and P. scabricollis, Gerst., as well as an ear- 
wig were taken under stones. Under one stone a large 
dark short-legged spider with globular abdomen was found 
in the midst of copious remains of beetles, ete. 
On the veldt in the outskirts of the town, beyond the 
Old Kimberley Mine, the following were found by turning 
over stones, old tins, ete.:—The Lamellicorn, 7’rox denti- 
culatus, Oliv.; the Heteromeron, Psammodes vialis, ? Burch., 
two dead specimens; the Weevils, Brachycerus globosus, 
Fabr., one; Hpisus bohemani, Auriv., one; Sparticerus sp., 
four; and S. rudis, Faihr., nine. None of the last three 
species were represented in the British Museum; for 
weevils their integuments are but moderately hard, but, 
on the cther hand, in the red sandy soil under the old tins, 
or among the roots of composite plants, their rough surface 
as well as their colour make them difficult to see. Hight 
specimens of the Carabid, Bwoglossa melanaria, Boh., were 
found in holes in the ground under stones or tins; they 
ran fast when disturbed. It was noted that under the 
South African sun even large stones, not to speak of the 
omnipresent rusty tins, afford so little protection that in 
many cases insects were found lurking in holes in the 
earth beneath, so that they were doubtless often passed 
over. Besides the above beetles the stones and tins 
harboured a number of the Ant Monomorium subopacum, 
Smith, race australe, Emery. 
Under an old calf’s foot and pastern were three speci- 
mens of Necrobia rufipes, Fabr., a British insect; two of the 
cosmopolitan Dermestes vulpinus, Fabr., and another beetle 
not yet named. The fly Agria nuba, Wied., was captured 
in the same locality. 
At the DurorrspaN MINE we saw Pyrameis cardui, and 
took two Synchloé hellica, one of each sex, as well as the 
Locust Acrotylus sp. A. Longicorn, Tetradia lophoptera, 
