and Captures in South Africa in 1905. 361 
Two wasps were taken, Humenes tinctor, Christ, and 
Amiophila beniniensis, Pal. de Beau., both females, while 
sweeping produced an Ichneumon. Ants were represented 
by a solitary Camponotus sp., of which Col. C. T. Bingham 
writes, “ New, but as a single specimen I cannot venture 
to describe it: allied to C. sericews, Fabr.” 
The Orthoptera if not numerous were variously repre- 
sented by a Mantis larva obtained by sweeping ; four 
Blatizx of the genus /schnoptera n. sp. (near to bimaculata, 
Gerst.), found under stones and running very rapidly away 
when disturbed ; sweeping yielded also many grasshoppers, 
one of which had head and thorax conspicuously marked by 
two lateral yellow stripes. The locust Prototettix tmpressus, 
Stal., was taken on a tree. 
Two very active little bugs were found under stones or 
leaves when looking for beetles, another was adorned with 
ared abdomen. Sweeping as usual yielded sundry Homo- 
ptera. The same operation produced a few beetles: 
a Lagria sp., in the collection at South Kensington, but 
unnamed, of which five specimens were obtained ; a single 
Cryptocephalus callias, Suff.; two of the Phytophagid Zesna 
chalcoptera, Lac. ; six Haltica indigacea, lllig.; two Hispa 
sp., also one #7. bellicosa, Guér., of which the National Collec- 
tion has specimens from the Gold Coast only. Lastly three 
Staphs, Osorius rugiceps, Boh., were found under dead wood. 
In such a spot it was but seemly to find an Amphibian, 
accordingly we may note that a toad-like frog was abun- 
dant among the marshy spray-drenched grass between the 
Rain Forest and the Chasm. Many of these were ex- 
tremely small, hardly larger than blue-bottles. A large 
specimen evacuated a mass of elytra, etc., of small beetles, 
apparently mostly geodephagous but some _ perhaps 
phytophagous ; this was interesting, in so far as it bore 
out our experience that the Coleoptera of the Forest were 
very small. 
Three species of land-snails were found in the Rain 
Forest; two turreted forms, Opeas octona, Chem., under 
stones, and the transparent O. mamillata, Craven, in like 
situations, both gregarious. Sweeping grass yielded 
the delicate, transparent, horny Swecinea ? badia, Mor., 
very near to the British S. putris, Linn. 
A Barotse boy, a servant of Mr. Allen’s, collected for us 
a number of Paludina capillata, Frauenfeld, but exactly 
where he found them is not on record. 
