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Anthioo, some of wliicli 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 snoutdfcetles, 
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 buffiiloes, lo ! we were toiling and 
moiling in the sun, and after all our exertions 
finding nothing which we appeared to regard as 
food 1 Hence his amazement. On our way Irack 
we captured a few stragglers, among them some 
elongated bark-beetles under the bark of a hollow 
tree near a pretty cottage on the hillside, where we 
gathered delicious mushrooms. A fine di\dng- 
beetle was taken in a cattle-pond ; a mimic flower- 
beetle and a shard-beetle were captured promena- 
ding a sheep-walk. By the sides of a sandy road 
