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A blue Wasp was taken, and several others seen; it turns out to 
be a new species and has been named by Colonel C. T. Bingham 
after the captor, Notogonia dixeyi [see Plate II., Fig. 4, also footnote, 
p. 182, supra]. Under a log were found numbers of the big-headed 
soldiers and thin workers of Camponotus maculatus. 
The conspicuous Reduviid bug, Physorrhynchus crux , was common 
under logs of wood, corrugated iron, etc., near the lighthouse; it has 
a peculiar pungent odour. 
The solitary Fly brought home was apparently the cosmopolitan 
Sarcophaga carnaria, Linn. 
On the sandhills near the lighthouse were plenty of the 
widely distributed Snail, Helix ( Euparypha ) pisana, Mull., pro¬ 
bably introduced. 
Dr. Dixey found a horrible Worm in a surprising place, it was on 
a dry sandy path at about 3.30 p.m., on a dull afternoon. I call it 
horrible for it was nearly as thick as the finger and from 11 to 16 
inches in length according as it was fully extended or otherwise. 
Its colour was of the olive-brown that one associates with seaweed, 
but it had a black ring, an inch wide, behind its head. 
Congella, some three miles to the west of Durban, is another very 
pleasant locality. The ground rises gradually from near the level 
of the harbour for perhaps a mile to the large banana plantations 
from 200 to 300 ft. above sea-level, the slopes being covered with 
wild scrub traversed by a woodland track, while through the lower 
portions are cut wide grass-covered roadways foreshadowing the 
development of an eligible building estate. 
As usual, Danaida chrysippus was to be had; we took five males 
and a female. We took a female of Amauris echeria , and three 
females of A. albimaculata, the latter flew slowly and were easily 
caught. Acraea was well represented, the commonest species being 
the black, yellow-spotted A. cabira ; one specimen of this was taken 
on Lantana flowers (for this Neotropical shrub has spread even to 
Natal), but as a rule it was seen flying about the tops of trees, in 
which situation it looked a much larger insect than it really is; thirteen 
specimens were taken, one of these which reached the hotel alive, 
having survived pinching as Acraeae so often do, proved very resistant 
to chloroform. A. terpsichore looks on the wing like a small British 
Argynnis ; we took five. Of A . petraea , which when alive is very 
rosy, both above and below, we took two. Of A. natalica, we got 
one among grass; its hind-wings have a lovely rosy flush in life, 
indeed the beauty of many of these Acraeae cannot be appreciated 
from cabinet specimens; A . encedon, of which we took three, is a 
