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were common inside the seed-vessels together with numbers of a 
fetid brown bug not yet named, and what we took to be beetle larvae. 
A third bug, of a pale scarlet colour when alive, frequented the same 
Solanum. 
The few flowers that were out yielded nothing but a Honey-bee 
and an Empis. 
At Clifton, Camps Bay, on the undercliff above the dazzling 
white beach, upon the flowers of a shrubby Senecio- like Composite, 
we took the small green Longicorn, Promeces linearis, Linn., the 
small bronzy Bee, Halictus jucundus, Smith, ?, and Apis mellifica, 
two ?. 
A small Carabid, Platynus rufipes, Dej., found under a stone, 
completed our small bag. As we often experienced afterwards, the 
South-east Trade brought up clouds and gave us a dull afternoon, 
so that collecting was practically over at an early hour. 
On a shrub in the Botanical Gardens, at about 4 feet above the 
ground I found a green Chamaeleon(C. pumilus., Daudin) concerning 
which I shall have more to say later. 
Port Elizabeth, Algo a Bay, Cape Colony, lat. 34° S. Sea-level. 
August 11th. 
The steamer did not give us a very long time at this place. 
After an early breakfast we took the train to Zwaartkops, some 
seven miles to the northward. 
The coast here is hat and fringed with sandhills; by the. railway 
the country is sandy and heathy; on the south side of the river its 
delta forms a level plain perhaps a mile wide between the sandhills 
and the railway, this is diversified by brackish swamps and intersected 
by streams. On the drier portions of this saline plain Termitaria 
are numerous, from 1 foot to 2 J feet high, and 2 to 3 feet across; 
on the surface they are smooth and hard as if “ rendered ” with 
cement, many-chambered within. One long ridge of sand was 
covered with thorny shrubs. The most conspicuous plant was a 
tall Aloe (?) arborescens, (t)ferox, 1 6 or 8 feet high in full flower, but 
there were also at least two species of Cotyledon (.Eckeveria ), and 
several species of Mesembryantherrmm , one with large pink flowers, 
another with still larger yellow flowers, a third salmon-coloured, 
and a fourth shrubby, with small pink flowers. In such a locality 
1 The true Aloe, of the Nat. Ord. Liliaceae: the plant most commonly so named 
is the Agave , an American genus of the Nat. Ord. Amaryllideae. 
