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apparently by a bird; of Polyommatus baeticus two; of Gastalius 
calice , Hopff., one, a tattered specimen, and of Virachola antalus one 
female, boxed off a plant close to the ground; it was sitting head- 
downward, but the false head had been bitten off, so that it could not 
deceive again. 1 
Among the Skippers were the now familiar Gegenes letterstedti, two; 
Parnara fatuellus, one; Sarangesa motozi, Wallgr. ( pato , Trim.), one ; 
Aeleros mackenii , one male and two females, this and other Skippers 
were more active on dull days than most butterflies; Eretis djae- 
laelae , Wallgr., one settled with wings outspread; and Pterygospidea 
flesus, seven. Of the last species several were seen to settle on the 
upper sides of leaves, with wings spread out like a Boarmiid. 
The beautiful Egybolia vaillantina was rather common, it is a 
slow feeble flier, the wings flapping much, so it was easy to catch 
six specimens. The Lymantriid Euproctis punctifera , of which we 
took three males and a female, was very common, it is one of those 
insects which look on the wing far larger than they are, an appear¬ 
ance that may be due either to bright colour (in this case orange) or 
to the mode of flight. Of the small Syntomid Pseudonaclia puella, 
and the Chalcosiine Anomoeotes levis, Feld., we took two each, the 
latter looks surprisingly large on the wing. 2 Other moths taken were 
the Geometer Gracillodes caffra, Guen., one; the Pyrale Antigastra 
morysatis, Walk., one; the Hyponomeutid, Eretmocera lunifera , Zell., 
one, and several other unnamed Micros. 
The Odonata were represented by two Orthetrum fasciolatum, & 
and one Brachybasis rhomboidalis, Beauv.; the Orthoptera by a 
Cockroach found under a log, (?) Deropeltis autraniana, Sauss., imma¬ 
ture ; and an Acridian, Tryxalis stdli, Boliv., which was very hard 
to see, being shaped and coloured like a piece of dead grass or straw. 
Hear the reservoir, on a shrubby lavender-flowered Composite, 
were taken together the South African form of Honey-bee, Apis 
adansoni, and the Syrphid Eristalis taeniops, which was noticed to 
be a fairly close mimic of the bee, at all events when alive. Both 
insects are brighter than their British representatives. 
The Beetles found at Congella were the Clavicorn Megalodacne 
grandis, Fabr., and the Heteromeron, Anthracias taurus, Fabr., both 
found under logs; also Eudema nobilis, Klug, and the very distinct 
Carabid, Thyreopterus fiavosignatus, Dej., found under the bark of a 
dead stump among numerous ants. 
1 See p. 69, supra. Also Chapter X., § 10. 
2 Compare my observations on the Indian Chalcosiine, Agalope hyalincc, Roll., 
near Simla, p. 44, supra. 
