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be seen running swiftly over the sand with their abdomina borne 
high in the air. They were Camponotus fulvopilosus, De Geer, dull 
grey-black with pale brown hairy abdomen, very cryptic in their 
sandy home. The “ soldiers ” have such disproportionately big heads 
as to suggest drummer-boys in bear-skins. The species was common 
about the hotel and on the way to the Falls. Also running swiftly 
over the sand a small Beetle was taken, a Zophosis not in the 
National Collection. A flowering tree close to the hotel produced 
the widely spread Apis mellijica , race adansoni , as well as two other 
Bees not yet determined. 
The irrigated kitchen-garden of the hotel attracted numerous 
insects, the most striking being Acraea atolmis , Westw., of which 
about a dozen, all males, were secured; it is a beautiful insect 
looking blood-red when alive; with them were taken three A. atergatis, 
Westw. (both this and the last-named were, until quite recently, rare 
insects in collections); three male A. anemosa, one of them a dwarf, 
and two A. alboradiata, $ and $. With the Acraeae were two 
females of Terias brigitta, of the “dry” form, also one Aphnaeus 
erikssoni, Trim. In the same garden were taken the steely-blue-winged 
Wasp, Discolia ebenina , Sauss., four males and a female; also another 
somewhat fly-like Wasp, the handsome black and yellow Bembex 
capicola , Handl., a male—only the second specimen known to the late 
Colonel C. T. Bingham, the type being at Vienna. 
The electric lights of the hotel attracted a considerable number of 
insects, but they were for the most part small and insignificant in 
appearance:— 
Noctuina. — Eustrotia ( Xanthoptera ) opella, Swinh., three, a 
common Indian species. Homoptera scandatula, Feld., one, a Cato- 
calid. Homoptera (?) sp. nov., one. Paromphale chionephra, Hmpsn., 
sp. nov., two. 1 Arcyophora (?) sp. nov., one, an Acontiid not in the 
British Museum. Entelia poly chorda, Hmpsn., one, a variable 
Quadrifid. Eublemma snelleni, Wallgrn., a very small Quadrifid. 
Geometrina. — Comibaena leucospilata, Walk., one : a pretty 
Emerald. 
Pyralina. — Argyractis sp., two. Stemmatophora chloralis, Hmpsn. 
in MS., sp. nov., five : a very distinct and pretty little insect, whitish- 
green with black central band; its description will shortly be pub¬ 
lished. [See Plate II., Fig. 9.] Parthenodes scotalis, Hmpsn., sp. nov., 
five: a somewhat dingy Hydrocampid. 2 [Plate II., Fig. 8.] Platytes 
sp. nov., five: a beautiful Crambid which Sir George F. Hampson has 
1 Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii. p. 439 (1911). 
2 Hampson, Ibid. (7) xviii. p. 470 (1906). 
