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Acraea neobule, Dbl. & H., and Byblia ilithyia , were taken at the 
King’s Post, but the commonest butterfly there was Pyrameis cardui, 
for the most part small and rather worn specimens; flying with it 
was Utetheisa pulchella. Lizards were numerous, but although Dr. 
Dixey spent some time in watching them, they were not seen to 
make any attacks on butterflies. 
At the Devons’ Post Synchloe hellica, Pyrameis cardui ) Precis 
cebrene , and Zizera lysimon were taken. Alongside a stream sepa¬ 
rating the two hills Yphthima asterope was rather common, looking 
not unlike a Blue on the wing; futile attempts were made to see 
the butterfly settle, but it was restless. At the flowers of Aloe 
(?) ferox were Xylocopa hottentota , Smith, $, the Wasps Belonogaster 
distinguendus, Kohl, 3 $, and Eumenes dimidiatipennis, Sauss., ?, a 
large red and black, brown-winged insect; the Phytophagid Ortalia 
pollens , Muls., was taken flying near the same flowers. 
Anywhere along the ridge that strange Grasshopper, Phymateus 
leprosus , Serv., might be seen. This is of a grey- or yellowish-green, 
tinted with yellow, orange, and pink; its hard thorax, though strongly 
tuberculate, shines with an enamel-like texture. It is very sluggish, 
and unlike most of its tribe does not readily take flight, but when it 
does so makes a rattling noise. When touched it emits copiously a 
dark olive-green, very fetid fluid, which dries up as a sticky varnish 
readily soluble in water; this, accidentally tasted, was found to be 
bitter and extremely unpleasant. [See Plate II., Fig. 7.] 
I suppose there never were battlefields where so few relics are to 
be found. An occasional shrapnel bullet, or fragment of shell, is all 
that is to be seen. The Kaffirs have made a clean sweep of the 
country. I once happened on a water-bottle. Owing to the mar¬ 
vellous climate in some places preserved-meat tins (where not 
scratched) were still, after three years, as brilliant as silver. 
August 28, 1905.—At Ingagane Station, lat. 27° 56' S., alt. 
3900 ft., a specimen of the Geodephagous beetle, Aeupalpus natalicus , 
Pering., was found under a lump of hard earth. 
At Newcastle, lat. 27° 48' S., alt. 3900 ft., a specimen of 
Precis sesamus was found in a tiny dark kloof; its love of dark¬ 
ness was also noted on subsequent occasions. Several Acridians, 
whose determination is postponed, were taken. An immature Cock¬ 
roach was found under a flat piece of iron, together with a community 
of the Ant, Acantholepis vestita. The Heteromerous beetle Zophosis 
coffer was caught running swiftly over sand. 
At Inkwelo, under the shadow of Amajuba (lat. 27° 32' S., about 
4500 ft. above the sea), a Fly, Sarcophaga sp., was taken, but on this 
