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specimen of the wide-ranging Polyommatus baeticus, also a female, 
were netted. The hasty turning over of a few stones yielded the 
Pentatomid hug Diploxys acanthura, Westw.; four Ants, Gamponotus 
maculatus ; also a dead Beetle with a very hard carapace, Anomalipus 
sp., represented in the British Museum collection, but without a 
name; as well as a Weevil, Sparticerus sp. 
Mahalapye, lat. 23° 3' S., alt. 3300 ft.—Here we entered the 
tropics, an event that was signalized by the capture of a male 
Catopsilia florella, Fabr., and the determination of its sweet scent. 
Palapye Road Station, lat. 22° 44' S., alt. 3010 ft.—The beetle 
Xenitenus dilucidus , Pering., was taken in the train. 
Serui, lat. 22° 27' S.—While stopping at this station the electric 
lights of the train attracted a number of insects, among those 
that were secured were the very small drab Hoctua Eublemma 
sp. (near foedosa, Guen.); a Quadrifid Noctua, Homoptera sp. (which 
may be new); an Acontiid Noctua, Arcyophora rhoda, Hmpsn.; a 
flying Ant, Mesoponera caffraria , a female; and several moths not yet 
determined. 
It was during this journey (? at Francistown) that we were 
startled by a huge cock Ostrich belonging to the station master which 
stalked along the train thrusting its hideous head, with those un¬ 
sympathetic eyes, into the carriage windows, presumably in search 
of food. 
Bulawayo, South Rhodesia, lat. 20° 9' S., alt. 4470 ft. 
September 9th—11th, 1905. 
The most promising spot near the Matabili Capital was, we were 
told, the Waterworks situated a few miles to the westward, at an 
altitude of perhaps 4600 ft. Here we came across two shrubs in 
full flower, which proved very attractive to insects: one with white 
sweet-scented flowers, Dombeya (?) rotundifolia , Harv., was frequented 
by Acraea doubledayi, Guer., though these butterflies seemed shy 
of actually settling upon the flowers. Altogether we took seven 
specimens, three of them about the Dombeya. On these flowers 
we also took the slender Scoliid Myzine capitata , Smith, and the 
long-bodied wasp Belonogaster griseus , $; there were also two beetles 
of the genus Mylabris (or perhaps Geroctis ), a Cantharid of very 
similar colouring to the Longicorn Hylomela sexpunctata, Fabr., a 
species that we met with at Ladysmith and East London, but not 
nearer. Two of the Cetoniid, Bhabdotis ( Pachnoda ) sobrina, Gory & P., 
were also taken on the Dombeya ; it is an active insect easily alarmed 
