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to the golfers, afforded shelter to a number of Arthropoda. The 
most interesting beetle was G-raphipterus cordiger, a quite soft insect 
of a drab colour bearing upon its elytra a black mark which has been 
variously compared to a heart, a fiddle, and a tennis-racquet; of this 
we secured eight examples. Of the Weevil Sparticerus rudis , which 
was very common, we took seven specimens, again noticing its 
resemblance to the red soil of the veldt. It may be here mentioned 
that the general colour of the soil at Kimberley, as at Johannesburg, 
Pretoria, Durban, and indeed most of the places that we visited, is 
red; the white dust that is so disagreeable in the town is derived 
from the mining refuse, and a very similar dust is met with near the 
gold mines of the Rand. Among the common S. rudis was found 
another Sparticerus which shammed death, this specimen is not repre¬ 
sented in the British Museum collection; we also took two Episus 
bohemani. The Carahidae were represented by one Bcteoglossa mela- 
naria , three Harpalus hybridus , Boh., all females, and five H. affinis , 
Pering. Dead examples of the Heteromera, Psammodes scabricollis 
and P. vialis, with other remains showed that it was not the season 
for that genus, and the unearthing of a large beetle-larva pointed 
to the same conclusion. 
With the beetles were several Bugs and an Ant, Aphaenogaster 
barbara , Linn., var. capensis, Mayr, accompanied by a number of 
“ silver fish” ( Thysanura ). 
RAILWAY JOURNEY FROM KIMBERLEY TO BULAWAYO. 
September 7th and 8th, 1905. 
Taungs, British Bechuanaland, lat. 27° 33' S., alt. 3590 ft.— 
The very distinct Catocaline Noctua Chalciope rivulata , Hmpsn., and 
a Tinea, not as yet determined, came to light in the train. 
Mochudi, Bechuanaland, lat. 24° 22 r S., alt. 3100 ft.—Two flies 
which would appear to be the too familiar Musca domestica , were 
taken near the station, as well as an obscure beetle found under a 
stone. It was somewhere near this place that we entered the forest 
characteristic of this part of Africa, an open or easily penetrable 
growth, with deciduous trees of moderate size having a curious 
tendency to be flat-topped, affording a striking contrast to a Canadian 
forest of pointed firs. An English wood with its round-topped, or 
dome-shaped trees, is more beautiful than either. 
Artesia, lat. circa 24° S., alt. 3100 ft.—A female of the very 
African-looking Lycaenid, Zeritis damarensis , Trim., as well as a 
