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Wasp Belonogaster griseus , Fabr., was abundant, and four males were 
with difficulty secured; the South African form of Apis mellifica 
was also busily at work together with two smaller Bees (?). These 
last Colonel C. T. Bingham described as a new species under the 
name of Ceratina mttata, 1 sp. nov., so an otherwise disappointing day 
was redeemed. A specimen of the Chafer Oxythyrm marginalis , 
Schonh., was taken on the lavender flowers of a Buddleia [Nat. Ord. 
Loganiaceae] near the river, and close by a single example of the 
Lycaenid, Spindasis mommUca , Bert. On the veldt below the big 
tree, the common but pretty Grasshopper, Catantops melanostictus, 
was very active and difficult to secure; in the same place we netted 
two specimens of Terias brigitta, a species we had not met with 
in Natal. 
RAILWAY JOURNEY FROM JOHANNESBURG TO KIMBERLEY. 
September 4th, 1905. 
Glen Siding, lat. 28° 55' S.—On the flowers of a low-growing 
Senedo (not unlike the Oxford S. sgualidus, Linn.) a Wasp was taken, 
Ammophila (?) argentea , Brulle, $, which Colonel C. T. Bingham said 
was not typical, but possibly a local form of the species; with this 
was a Honey-bee, Apis adansoni , $. At this place Pyrameis cardui 
and Colias electra were noted, 
Bloemfontein, lat. 29° 7', alt. 4500 ft.—In the station-yard the 
last-named two butterflies were again seen, and a female Synchloe 
hellica was taken. 
Norval’s Pont, Cape Colony, lat. 30° 88', alt. 4000 ft.—The 
cosmopolitan Plutella maculipennis, Curt, (cruciferarum, Zell.), 
came to our lights. 
Colesberg Junction, lat. 30° 44'; alt. 4370 ft.™At this station, 
naturally associated with the exploits of General French, several 
moths visited the lights of the train. They were the pretty silver- 
striped Geometer, Concilia nitidula , Cram.; an unnamed Noctua ; our 
old friend of many lands, Nomophila noctuella ; and three Phycids, 
two of them being the dingy Microthrix insulsella. 
During the long railway journeys over the elevated tablelands 
of the interior, and more especially between the Orange River and 
Vryburg far north of the Yaal, the train travels for hour after hour 
over plains at one time rolling, at another level, but the view is 
almost always broken by the characteristic flat-topped hills or 
“ kopjes ” which played such a conspicuous part in the war. They 
1 See footnote, p, 182, supra. 
