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Had Dr. Schultze added to his many qualifications that of an entomological collector doubtless his 
captures would have been greater, but to him that would reproach him with that apparent lack of attain- 
ment, let me add that had he gone on the same itinera ry he would probably have done not more, and to 
all likehood much less. 
Entomologising in the parts gone over by Dr. Schultze is not a sinecure. At certain epochs ample 
showers of rain fall for a short time; in certain localities like the sea belt there is no such showers. Few 
days after the downpour, and as if waiting for the same, myriads of insects appear, mate and die, Exeunt 
otnnes. The life of Ephemeridae might be said to be not longer. If repeated, these showers of rain bring 
forth again fresh life, and that of greater duration, but still for a limited period. Then, all insect apparently 
vanish, and they have to be ferreted in their haunts by one who knows of their habits or modes of life, 
but even then often with very little success. 
For the greater part of the year, animal life of all kind, but especially insect life is to the observer 
almost absent in the day time. A rare butterfly here and there, occasionally a slow going Psammodes 
struggling painfully along; in the most arid, sandy or stony parts an agile Zophosis, Adesmia or Stenocarpn 
a turgid Epiphysa or a Brachycerns shaming death with its legs stiffened and thrown out, as soon as it hears 
a threatening noise; here and there a bold Anthia that is but too ready to eject its pungent fluid to the 
face of its captor; Tabanid flies prone on drawing blood from the team of oxen and occasionally from the 
drivers, such are the insects that enliven the landscape. 
But let the night come on, for here there is no twilight, and at its approach is heard the humming 
noise of the unknown, because not seen Coleoptera ; to the camp fires come uncanny looking insects that 
burn themselves miserably to the flame before they can be secured. To the waggon lamp, if there is one, 
flock real entomological treasures of the rarer form, because to them the cool of the evening is day, and 
because also they are capable of flight, which neither the Tenebrionid nor the Curculionid treated of 
here, are. 
A. Tenebrionidae. 
I. Zophosinae. 
Genus Zophosis. 
1. Zophosis namibensis n. sp. 
Ampliato-ovata, subnitida, aenea, elytris cyanescentibus, caput antice creberrime in fronte tenuissime 
punctatum ; antennae basin prothoracis attingentes, articulo tertio secundo duplo longiore; prothorax longi- 
tudine basi fere quadruplo latior, lateribus subarcuatis angulis acuminatis, parum convexus, subtiliter 
aciculatus medio linea longitudinali subobsoleta ; elytra ad medium prothorace latiora, postice conjunctim 
arcuato-rotundata, supra parum convexa, a medio apice dehiscentia, postice ad suturam deplanata, in dorso 
costa juxta suturali modice distincta alteraque antice obsoletiori at postice leviter carinulata carinulaque 
juxta marginali utrinque praedita, crebre acute granulata, granulis apice fere obliteratis, interstitiis ad basin 
levibus, reliquiis inaequaliter rugosis, intervallo supra marginali granulis fere rugatis valde elongatis, sub- 
