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Tour much-besnuifcd Kafir here approaches, exhibiting with pride 
El mangled assortment of captures, tlic majority of which consists of 
Danais Ghrysippits and Z>, EcTieria. As you clear the pins of most of 
these useless specimens, you have the pleasure of acquiring a large 
amount of a similar kind of yellow fluid to that so liberally bestowed 
by the Acrcea. The Kafir's pinches are no joke, as too many ruined 
rarities have often convinced you ; but such is the elasticity of these 
Banaidae that nearly all of them, on the withdrawal of the retaining 
pins, flag off in a nonchalant manner as if nothing had befallen them, 
and the remainder only appear rather stupified. The Zulu now indi- 
cating that there is something to be seen close by, you follow hiaa to an 
inlet of the open, where there is a large thorny bush covered with 
sweet-scented white flowers. And the flowers are covered with insects 
of all orders. Strong Cetonildcc jostle aside the slender Callichroma; ; 
flower-like Mantidce have not long to wait for their prey ; in imitation 
of these the Neuropterous Mantispa lifts its long arms ; and black-and- 
red ReduvicB, of malignant aspect, lurk for victims among the corollas. 
Above the bush, now hovering, now settling, are swarms of Lepidoptera 
and Diptera, most of them eager for nectar, and through the crowd 
there ever and anon bursts a great heavy Xylocopa with her angry 
buzz. The broad, painted wmgs of the Lepidoptera, apart from their 
reckless activity, of course render them the most conspicuous members 
of this assemblage. It is evidently here that the Zulu has taken his 
Danais Eclieria, for that butterfly abounds on and about the flowers. 
Catch a few specimens ; you find them behave precisely as the Acrcea 
did. Try another, that floats above you, just within reach. How 
active this fellow is ; he won't " sham dead" in the least. And surely 
he is much stouter about the thorax ; besides, what a big head and 
palpi ! Why, it's a Diadema — and not a Danais at all ! ! Yes, turn it 
over as much as you please, you can't make anything else of it ; and 
yet you could have taken your oath it was an Echeria. After this dis- 
covery, you keep on catching the Danais, and make your Kafir do the 
same, in the hope of getting othei-s of the delusive Diadema ; but your 
combined eftorts are in vain, and you begin to understand that you 
have taken a rarity. 
After filling almost all your boxes from this favoured spot, a tre- 
mendous chorus of CicadcB attracts you towards a neighbom'ing Acacia, 
When you are close to the trunk, the sharp ring of the insects' note 
makes you certain that these musicians are sitting just before your 
eyes, but, for the life of you, you can't see them. At length, when 
