HO WICK—COLENSO 
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From Durban to Johannesburg. 
August 22nd, 1905. 
The first point of the journey over the Highlands of Hatal at 
which we had a few minutes’ time to leave the luxurious carriages 
of the Government Eailway was Inchanga, 2470 ft. above sea- 
level. Here on some sandy ground near a stream bordered by rushes 
and coarse grass or on a bank with a few flowers ( Senecio sp.) we 
took a dry-season specimen of the Satyrid Pseudonympka cassius, 
Godart; a Wasp prettily marked with rich brown, black and white, 
Polistes fastidiosus, Sauss., $ ; a handsome Braconid, Iphiaulax 
whitei, Cam.; and an apple-green Mantid larva; also by sweeping 
the Senecio , etc., two Apis mellifica , race adansoni, an Asilid 
(?) Dysmachus sp., and the Grasshopper Gat ant ops melanostictus. 
We spent the night at the Falls of the Umgeni, at Ho wick, 
lat. 29° 28' S., 3400 ft. above sea-level, and before dark turned 
over a few basalt stones, taking a number of Ants, Pheidole irritans , 
Smith; two Blattae with a very strong, sweet, really rather pleasant 
scent, suggesting pear-drops, or amyl acetate; they were immature and 
Mr. Shelford thinks they may possibly be a new species ; a small 
Beetle, Euleptus caffer, Boh., and an Acridian, at present unnamed. 
It was cold at night here. 
At Estcourt, lat. 29° 2' S., alt. 3800 ft., on an open grassy 
place near the Station we were rather more successful. Two males 
of Synchloe hellica were secured; they were noticed when at rest to 
withdraw the fore-wings completely between the hind-wings, and to 
raise the abdomen, just as Euchloe was observed to do in Algeria. 1 
We also took a small Syntomid (as yet unnamed), a Lady-bird, 
Epilachna similis, Thunb.; two Ants, Camponotus cosmicus , Smith, 
and a Grasshopper, Trilophidia sp.; this last was originally discovered 
by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, and declared by Senor Bolivar to be a new 
species, but it has not yet been named. 
Colenso, lat. 28° 46' S., alt. 3200 ft. The late afternoon was 
spent on the low ground south of the Tugela, between the river where 
the Boers were so securely posted, and the spot where Colonel 
Long’s guns were abandoned. The immense value of cover in modern 
war was made evident when one stood in the very shallow spruit 
which served for shelter to our men after the loss of the guns. The 
only butterflies seen were Pyrameis cardui and Danaida ehrysippus . 
Several moths were kicked up, the Boarmiid Geometers Osteodes 
1 See p. 162, supra; also Plate V., Fig. 10. 
