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undertone at Anchomenus prasinus, another green but common 

 beetle, which was always riinning about and giving him false hopes. 

 At length he found a veritable Drypta. Drawing a long breath, he 

 exclaimed, this time aloud, and with a jubilant expression, ' Glory ! 

 glory ! glory ! I got 'un ! ' " His incidental mention of Dr. Power is 

 in this wise. " Some • innocent ' not yet versed in the deep mysteries 

 of beetle-lore, and not inured to the toils of beetle-hunting, who may 

 never have seen, as I have, the indefatigable Doctor Power on his 

 stomach in a ditch, spectacles on nose, and the perspiration streaming 

 down his cheeks with his fossorial exertions, may imagine that because 

 I have some thousand beetles nicely carded in ray store-box, I have 

 had no trouble but to pick them up. I can tell that complacent 

 know-nothing that he is quite mistaken." But adieu to England and 

 English beetle-hunting; we have crossed the boisterous Atlantic from 

 Rio and have landed at the Cape of Good Hope. 



" Ground beetles were our game. Our fair readers must picture us, 

 covered with sand, toiling among the loose stones at the base of the 

 mountain, turning them over to see what there was beneath. We 

 took some very fine prizes, named Anthiae, some of which were large 

 and black, some small and white-spotted. 



"Here also we discovered a goodly store of sand-beetles and 

 burrowing shore-beetles. In the gulleys, in the kloffs and small 

 ravines, in the humid neighbourhood of streams and water-courses, 

 mud-burrowing and marsh-beetles, together with a lily-beetle and a 

 few snout-beetles, turned up and rewarded our patient assiduity. The 

 Kaffir herdsman regarded us on this sultry day with special wonder, 

 for while, crouched motionless under the shadiest bush he could find 

 he watched his browsing buffaloes, lo ! we were toiling and moiling 

 in the sun, and after all our exertions finding nothing which he 

 appeared to regard as food ; hence his amazement. On our way 

 back we captured a few stragglers, among them some elongated bark- 

 beetles under the bark of a hollow tree near a pretty cottage on the 

 hill-side, vvhei*e we gathered delicious mushrooms. A fine diving 

 beetle was taken in a cattle-pond; a mimic flower beetle and a shard- 

 beetle were captured promenading a sheep-walk. By the sides of a 

 sandy road much used by buffaloes we came upon a large sable sacred- 

 beetle busily employed, like Sisyphus, in rolling up-hill earthen balls 

 containing his little ones, which, as often as not, when pushed along 

 with his crooked legs nearly to the top of the bank, came rolling down 



