374 Drs. Dixey and Longstaff’s Observations 
things, especially Phytophaga and Weevils. Thus Mala- 
cosoma polita, Jac., was abundant in the flowers of an 
Tris, while sweeping yielded Ootheca lxvipennis, Jac., 
Cryptocephalus polyhistor, Suff., Trochalus sp. 2, and the 
Cetoniid Oxythyrea hemorrhoidalis, Fabr., as well as the 
following small Weevils:—Hremnus gyrosicollis, Boh., 
Sciobius o'neili, Mrshl., 2, S. pullus, Sparr., Strophosomus sp., 
and two new species which Mr. G. A. K. Marshall has 
described* under the names £/liministes callosicollis, Mrshl. 
(4), and Myorrhinus longstafi, Mrshl., the latter in 
abundance. With the beetles in the sweeping net was a 
Bombylius Systechus sp., and two bugs, a black yellow- 
spotted Stenozygum that is possibly new, and the large 
pale ochreous fetid Pentatomid, Basicryptus distinctus, 
Sign. 
‘Other beetles taken in the same locality were the 
Lady-birds Chilomenes lunata, Fabr., and Polysticta macu- 
laris, Dej.; Melyris ciliatus, Oliv., Thysodactyla africana, 
Chap.; a Z'rochalus apparently undescribed ; a Telephorus ; 
a Lagria; and a Scarabeid, Syricthus spurius, Burm., the 
last found in rotten wood. 
Among Orthoptera were the big locust Phymateus 
leprosus, Serv., the common Catantops  melanostictus, 
Schaum, Prototettix  dwmnpressus, Stal., the handsome 
Acridium ruficorne, Fabr., so named from the red tips 
to the double row of white spines on its black tibie, and 
two unnamed grasshoppers, one grass-green, the other a 
curiously soft species, black with scarlet rings and blotches. 
The only flies taken were two Bombyliids of the genus 
Systechus, one at flowers, the other by sweeping. 
A few Aculeates complete the list, viz. :—2ylocopa 
flavo-rufa, De Geer, a male; A. divisa, Klug, a female; 
the prettily variegated Polistes fastidiosus, Sauss., a 
female; the grey Lcaria cincta, Lepel., 8; two small black 
bees Halictus deceptus, Smith, females; lastly a fine 
distinct. red, yellow and black wasp, which Col. C. T. 
Bingham has described as Odynerus longstafi, from a 
specimen in the National Collection from Natal, hitherto 
unnamed, making our specimen a co-type. Lastly an 
example of the blue-green Chrysid Hexachrysis simillimus, 
Grib., was taken settled on a bare rock. 
On our return walk we kicked up a Noctua in the 
wood, and as we reached its upper edge at about 3.0 p.m., 
* MARSHALL, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1906, pp. 922 and 982. 
