364 Drs. Dixey and Longstaff’s Observations 
CrocoDILE Poors Sration. 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. 
Azxiocerces 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. 
PITSANI 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 sacraria, Linn. (1), Crambus tenuistriga, 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. 23, 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 Heteromera 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. 
