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yellowish fawn-colour above, with eight brown lines along the back; 
beneath it was white with a pink tinge of blood showing through 
its anterior half, giving it a very worm-like appearance. Under 
chloroform the animal was extremely violent and was some time in 
dying. 
Turning over stones produced a few Beetles: single examples of 
Lycanthropa synoecoides, Ques., Harpalus exiguus, Dej., and Blenosia 
(Blacodes ) sp., as well as two Trigonopus sp., the last two both 
represented at South Kensington, but unnamed. With the 
beetles were several Blattidae, to wit Deropeltis erythrocephala, 
Fabr., $, an immature Pseudoderopeltis sp., and three specimens of 
another Cockroach which stands unnamed in the National Col¬ 
lection. 
An old Termitarium, long abandoned by its builders, afforded 
asylum to a number of insects, among which the most numerous 
and most conspicuous was the large Carabid Microlestia rugoso- 
\punctata , Thunb.; there was also a solitary Weevil, ffipporrhinus 
appendiculatus, Gyll. 
The great spikes of Aloe proved attractive to Flies and a Bee, 
Prosopis sandaracata, Bingh. At the same flowers a Bird with a 
long thin tail was very busy, but whether catching bees or eating 
honey could not be determined. 
The Hopliine beetle Gymnoloma atomaria, Fabr., was taken on 
a flower. Among Flies the cosmopolitan genus Sarcophaga was repre¬ 
sented, and an Asilid, apparently a Dysmachus, was noticed to settle 
on the ground 
While searching for beetles it was impossible to overlook the 
numerous empty spires of the large and handsome Snail, Achatina 
zebra , Chem. (fulgurata, Pfr.); one of them was tenanted by a 
stump-tailed Lizard which was purplish-grey spotted with olive- 
brown. A couple of Tortoises added to the picture, the carapace of 
one was about 5 inches, of the other nearly a foot long. 
Among the Bees that we brought home was a little one (un¬ 
fortunately not labelled) that was in all probability taken at 
Zwaartkops, though possibly at Cape Town, which turns out to be a 
novelty; the late Col. Bingham described it as Halictus inornatus, 
sp. nov} 
1 Its description, with those of other Aculeata taken by us in South Africa, will 
be published in the Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., at about the same time as this volume. 
The paper was read May 3, 1911. See below, pp. 196, 207, 212, 236, 245. 
