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away from a spot which under more favourable conditions 
should swarm with them. Beetles are somewhat less 
susceptible, and we took on flowers the pretty Cetoniid 
Oxythyrea hemorrhoidalis, Fabr., together with the com- 
moner 0. marginalis, Schon., also the Longicorn Hylomela 
sexpunctata, Fabr., which closely mimics a species of Mylabris 
(or ? Ceroctis) that we met with in South Rhodesia. 
Sweeping added to the list the Lady-birds Atechna hebe, 
Clk., and Cryptocephalus flavago, Suff., the Weevil Eili- 
menistes squamifer, Bob.; and the Phytophaga, Ootheca 
levipennis, Jac., Gynandropthalma malvernensis, Jac., var. ; 
Iuperus inconspicuus, Jac., as well as a rather pretty bug 
Veterna sanguincirostris, Thunb., the common grasshopper 
Catantops melanostictus, Schaum, and the locust Prototetti 
impressus, Stal. 
We took two pedunculated wasps, Belonogaster prawns, 
Kohl, and Ammophila ferrugineipes, Lepel., a male; also 
an Ichneumon, and a number of ants, Cremastoguster sordi- 
dula, Nyl., var., and Pheidole irritans, Smith, of which last 
the soldiers alone have big red heads. 
Turning over stones yielded the beetles Zrigonopus 
marginatus, Wied., and Lissogenius conspersus, Burm., as well 
as the common South African Reduvid bug Physorhynchus 
crux, Thunb., and two scorpions. 
A specimen of the Scarab Syrichthus spurius, Burm., was 
picked off the ground, while Mr. Rattray found a specimen 
of the large thick-legged Coreid bug Rhyticoris terminalis, 
Burm., also a large weevil with very hard integuments, 
Mecorhynus loripes, Schonh., and two millipedes whose in- 
teguments turned the point of a No. 16. pin. Mr. Wood 
found lying dead on the left bank of the Nahoon a Cara- 
bid beetle, Haplotrachelus sp., which is not in the National 
Collection. 
The Kaffir boatman caught several of a Psamimodes un- 
represented at South Kensington, they were crawling over 
the rocks by the lower landing-place, nearly opposite the 
Boat Club House. 
Lastly, on the west bank when it was quite evening a 
Hesperid was netted, Sarangesa motoz, Wallgr. (= pato, 
Trim. ). 
An old termitarium on the high ground above the Club 
House yielded, besides sundry ants, Cremastogaster weitze- 
chert, Emery, a “ night-adder,” a small serpent said to be 
very poisonous. 
