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turbulenta , Guen,, two; Zamaradapulverosa, Warr., one; and Nas- 
sunia petavia, Stoll, a male; also two tiny Hoctuae with yellow 
hind-wings, Sublemma sperans, Feld.; a Crambus and two Micros, 
none of them yet named. Two immature Acridians of the colour of 
dry grass were taken, also a Beetle, Scaptobius natalensis, Boh., one, 
and the Heteromeron Opatrum Q) armarium , Fabr., six. Several 
specimens of the Ant Pheidole irritans were taken, also some Ter¬ 
mites, two workers and two soldiers of the same community. The 
former when taken were carrying bits of grass and leaves; when 
brought back to the hotel they were dead and partly mutilated, 
apparently by the soldiers in the same pill-box. The soldiers, on 
the contrary, reached home alive and pugnacious, for they would 
grasp the point of the forceps and allow themselves to be lifted off 
the ground without letting go. 
August 24, 1905.—The next forenoon we ascended Hlangwane, 
the hill commanding the whole position, which unfortunately Buller 
did not occupy on December 15th, 1899. 
Some of the Boer trenches on the crest are so ingeniously con¬ 
structed as to be invisible from the front, all excavated material 
being deposited to the rear on the reverse slope. But it must be 
remembered that these trenches were erected after our disastrous 
repulse, and that there was then no serious obstacle to an attack 
upon the Boer left and left-rear. 
Again we saw no butterflies, and that morning we did not even 
get a moth. Under cow-dung on the plain two specimens of a new 
Dung-Beetle were found, (?) Eratognathus natalensis , Pering., and 
under stones, chiefly on the hill, we found an Omostropus, which Mr. 
Peringuey says is also new; an immature Bug and sundry Ants, to 
wit, the small Pheidole irritans , of which the workers are very tiny ; 
P. megacephala, Fabr., well deserving its name, and the big black 
Mesoponera eaffraria, Smith; also a Blatta sp., and an Ant-lion. 
Hear the top of the hill a large family of the Cockroach, Deropeltis 
erythrocephala , was found under a stone. 
Under stones in and among the Boer trenches a number of large 
Scorpions were found, olive-coloured, with testaceous rings, the large 
joint of the chelae and tip of the tail pale testaceous, paler beneath. 
Other dwellers under stones were very young Snakes, a nearly 
globular Toad which squeaked piteously when taken up, and a Gecko. 
The last ( Pachydactylus maculatus, A. Smith) was a sluggish animal 
with large eyes, doubtless correlated with nocturnal habits. Its body 
was dull pale brown, with a conspicuous row of dark brown spots 
on either side of the back, outlined with black and outside that with 
