222 rMarch, 
to put up some huge Myrmeleons, of the genus Pnlpares, the spotted 
and variegated aspect of whose long wings will probably cause you to 
mistake them for moths. Though much like those other conspicuous 
members of their Order, the Dragon-flies, these great insects are very 
unlike Lihellulidce in their flight, flapping wildly and irregularly about, 
as if their muscular apparatus were too weak to wield their stretch of 
wings. In repose, the wings are folded above each other so as to form 
an acute-angled roof above the abdomen. They difler in this respect 
from the long-horned Ascalaplii, which deflect the wings on either side, 
and hold the abdomen erect, or nearly so. 
As for Grasshoppers, they are in legions, but chiefly of one kind — 
a large green-and-brown species ; though now and then a slender, long- 
legged and long-headed Truxalis starts up almost from under your feet, 
and flies for a short distance with a sharp clicking sound. 
Butterfly life differs widely in this treeless region from its aspect 
on the wooded coast. The only Papilio that appears is P. Demoleus, 
and there seem to be but stray specimens of that. The ubiquitous 
Danais Ohrysippus, of course, is prevalent ; but the Pieridce, so numerous 
in the lowlands, here find their only representatives in Colias Electra 
and Pieris Hellica, both insects of wide distribution. Two beautiful 
AcrcEce, very rare on the coast, have their head-quarters in these parts, 
viz., A. Noliara and A. violarum, both red, with rows of black spots ; 
but for the numerous coast species, with the exception of A. serena, 
you look in vain. But the great feature of these green expanses, as in 
similar parts of the Cape Colony, is the multitude of Erehia Sabacus. 
Far as you can see, hundreds of this sober-tinted Satyride are flitting 
about the grass, or basking on the flowers. Nor must the richly-painted 
JimonicB of the hills be forgotten ; the blue-and-red J. Amestris; its 
duller but more harmoniously-coloured ally, Anchesia ; the large dark- 
red Octavia ; and the gaily -varied Ceryne ; all add a charm to the scene, 
and by their boldness and activity cannot fail to attract notice. Then, 
if you are in luck's way, at some point where the road cuts into the 
side of a hill higher than ordinary, you may fall in with the Meneris 
TulhagUa, settling under the edge of the bank, and may profitably 
speculate whether you should class it with the NymphalidcE or the 
SatyridcB. 
I feel it to be necessary to close this series of rambling reminis- 
cences of insect-collecting in Natal, or I shall run on indefinitely. 
" Caviare to the general," as they must ever prove, I can at least 
submit tlicm to the readers of this Magazine, resting assured that, 
