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A considerable variety of Lycaenids was taken, though they 
cannot be said to have been abundant: Virachola contains, Hopff., 
a male; Hypolycaena philippus, Fabr., a female; Axiocerces liar pax, 
Fabr., a male settled on a rose-bush in the Cemetery; Polyommatus 
baeticus , one; Zizera lucida, two females; Z. lysimon, one on the way; 
Lachnocnemenea bibulus, Fabr., four, in the Cemetery. This species 
sits with the abdomen turned up at an angle of 45° (like Euchloe ); I 
never saw this butterfly drinking, but it is fair to assume that 
the collector who sent the specimens to Fabricius reported its habits 
as he had observed them: its specific name would well describe 
many a Blue. In addition Catochrysops malathana, Boisd. ( asopus , 
Hopff.) turned up; while on the slopes of the spruit before mentioned 
I met with a single example of Alaena amazoula, Boisd., a female, 
which was very cryptic among the grass where it was found. In 
general appearance this species so closely resembles a tiny Acraea 
that at first it was placed next to that genus. 
The Skippers again were varied rather than numerous, single 
specimens being taken of each of the following:— Sarangesa motozioides, 
Holland, almost invisible as it sat on a rock in the spruit with its 
wings spread out flat; Netrobalane canopus, Trim., resting with ex¬ 
panded wings on the upper side of a Solanum leaf; Parnara fatudlus , 
Hopff.; Gomalia albofasciata, Moore; the large species Rhopalocampta 
pisistratus, Fabr., and R. forestan , Cram.; lastly Caprona adelica, 
Kirsch, a prettily marbled butterfly with a scaleless patch on the 
fore-wing, of which there are but two specimens in the British 
Museum. 
The Syntomids Pseudonaclia puella, Boisd.; Syntomis simplex, 
Walk, (two), a metallic-blue thing easily caught; and Euchromia 
formosa, Guer., were taken flying, the latter near the spruit. A 
crippled specimen of the singular Geometer, Gaenina poecilaria, 
H.-Schaff., was taken in the Cemetery, a better one missed in the 
spruit, both among long grass. 
The following Hymenoptera were taken: Xylocopa divisa, Klug, 
a male; a grey Wasp, Icaria cincta, Lepel., $; the Ant Gamponotus 
maculatus, eight specimens under a stone; and an undetermined 
Ichneumon-fly. 
The great order Coleoptera was very poorly represented by two 
Lady-birds, Ortalia sp., beaten out of a Composite creeper (apparently 
a Senecio), the species is represented in the British Museum, but 
unnamed; three Haplolycus, apparently of two species (one possibly 
congener, Gerst.), were either beaten out of, or taken flying about the 
same creeper; Acantholycus constrictus, Fabr., was caught flying slowly; 
