186 SOUTH AFKICA 
so make the best use of our time, which was here, as elsewhere, all 
too short. 
The Ocean View Hotel in the residential suburb called The 
Berea is perhaps 200 ft. above the sea; its garden yielded a few 
of the commoner butterflies— Papilio dardames, Brown, f. cenea, 
Stoll, a male, Precis clelia, Cram., Mycalesis safitza, Hew., both sexes, 
and Zizera lucida, Trim., a male. 
Lanes and bits of open ground near the hotel, still retaining much 
of the character of the primaeval scrub, afforded fair collecting. It 
was in such a place that we were much excited at beating out our 
first Salamis anacardii, Linn., a large greenish Hymphaline very leaf¬ 
like on the underside and with a peculiar satiny sheen that gives 
it a very tropical aspect. There we found late in the afternoon both 
sexes of Danaida chrysippus, with them were less familiar butter¬ 
flies, Acraea terpsichore, Linn, (buxtoni, Butl.), several feigning death 
in the net; A, cabira, Hopff., one; a pair of Precis sesamus; an 
example of Eurytela hiarbas, also several specimens of Byblia goetzius, 
of both sexes, all more or less “ dry ” in character; this butterfly 
flies low down rather quickly, settling usually on the ground 
under a bush, but is easily disturbed. We also took at the Berea 
two males of Belenois severina, two males and a female of Mylothris 
agathina, and one of each sex of Terias regularis, Butl. Of smaller 
things we took one each of Zizera lysimon, and Gegenes letterstedti, 
while beating produced a Geometer, not yet identified. 
The glow-lights of the hotel only yielded the Boarmiid Tephrina 
arenosa, Butl., and two Hoctuae :— Ophiusa mejanesi Guen. (a moth 
that occurs in India, coming very near to Walker’s type of expedita , 
a species sunk by Sir George Hampson), and Bthiopica ( Caradrina ) 
micra , Hmpsn. A humble Fly, Homalomyia canicularis, Linn., was 
an inmate of the hotel. 
Sandy banks by the roadside were haunted by various Fossors, 
two of which, Liris haemorrhoidalis, Fabr., a male, and Pompilus 
diversus, Smith, a female, exhibit Lycoid coloration, the last-named 
more especially, with its yellow-brown wings tipped with black. It 
may be explained that it is well known that in Africa a great many 
insects of various orders are coloured like the distasteful Mala- 
codermatous beetles of the family Lycidae, orange-brown tipped with 
black posteriorly. 1 With these were two of the slender yellow and 
black Dielis fasciatella , Hiibn., both males. The Syrphid fly, Eri - 
stalls taeniops , Wied., was too handsome to be passed by. 
1 See G. A. K. Marshall, Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1902, pp. 340, 344,380,515-518, 
and Plate XVIII. 
