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Liptena pallida , were the only Lycaenids brought home, the last 
taken near the top of the Palm Kloof. Between the last-named 
place and the railway bridge large Libellulid Dragon-flies were 
especially common and comparatively easy to catch as they hovered 
over the path head to wind, like hawks. The commonest would 
appear to be Pseudo-macromia torrida, but there was also a species of 
Macromia as well as the slender Pseudagrion (?) deckeni. 
Speaking of the railway bridge, perhaps one may be allowed to 
congratulate the engineer who designed it (Mr. G. A. Hobson, of the 
firm of Sir Douglas Fox and Partners) on a structure which seems 
as well fitted to its position alike in form and colour as such a thing 
can be; one shudders to think what might have been placed there 
by less sympathetic hands. 
The only Hymenoptera taken on the left bank were two small 
Bees, one, unnamed, at Ipomoea , the other Podalirius rapidus, 
Smith, <j>, hovering at Combretum flowers, also the Braconid Iphiaulax 
whitei , and a long-waisted Wasp, Belonogaster guerini , var. dubius , 
Beetles were few and far between: a Mylabris sp. (? Ceroctis 
sp.), found here, as well as on the other bank, in the flowers of 
Ipomoea , appears to mimic the Longicorn Hylomela sexpunctata, a 
beetle that we met with only at East London. In the same 
flowers was another beetle, a long narrow purple fellow, not yet 
named. 
A Fly, Haematopota sp., that attracted my attention by biting my 
hand, was the only Dipteron taken. 
If the left bank yielded us but a small bag it was some consider¬ 
able consolation, at all events to the fortunate observer, to have had 
the opportunity of contemplating from a distance of not more than 
100 yards a family of Hippopotami disporting themselves in the water. 
By the kindness of the Chartered Company’s Forester, Mr. 
C. E. F. Allen, I was enabled to visit with him two of the wooded 
islands some miles above the Falls. Entomologically the results 
were disappointing, but here again Hippopotami came to the rescue, 
for the thicket on one of the islands was traversed in all directions 
by their paths, while in an open space lay the bleaching bones of 
one of the uncouth monsters. The ubiquitous Danaida chrysippus 
was represented by a male, but no Acraea was taken, and the only 
Hymphalines were Precis natalica, with ocellated underside, and a 
Neptis which eluded capture. 
The Common White of these islands was Belenois severina , of 
which five “ dry ” males were taken; but B. gidiea was nearly as 
common, and two of each sex were brought home. All the gidiea 
