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from the Zambesi were of extreme “ dry ” type, drier than their con¬ 
gener. FTo Terias were taken and but three Teracoli , all males, two of 
T. antigone, one of evenina, Wallgr. Of Eronia leda> a female of 
“ dry ” type was taken. The only Satyrids were four Yphthima 
asterope, var. norma. The Lycaenids were even scarcer, as a solitary 
Zizera lysimon was the only Blue. 
A Geometer, an Emerald with red chequered fringes, Comibaena 
leucospilata , was the only moth taken, while unfortunately “ other 
orders” would appear to have been even more than ordinarily 
neglected, as the captures were limited to a single individual of the 
evil-smelling Ant, Paltothyreus tarsatus , and a pretty black and white 
two-winged Fly, Tabanus sp. 
Mr. Allen was good enough to give us four insects taken in a 
druggist’s shop at Livingstone, five miles above the Falls; they were 
two Flies, one of them a large, fierce-looking fellow, Tabanus sp., a 
red-bodied Wasp Odynerus carinatulus, $, and a Malacoderm beetle, 
Melyris nobilis , Gerst. 
The easiest way down to the river at its lower level, below the 
Falls, is by the gorge known as the Palm Kloof, which is separated 
by the Knife Edge from the eastern portion of the chasm. The 
path leads rapidly down into a wood of singularly tropical aspect, 
bounded on either hand by walls of basalt, and thence to the water’s 
edge. The collecting ground is very restricted and difficult, being 
almost co-extensive with the steep path, so that the ratio of things 
taken to things seen was a low one. 
The butterfly that was most characteristic of the Kloof was 
Neptis marpessa, Hopff.; it was distinctly common, and we took it 
nowhere else. It has the graceful, sailing, sibylla-like flight of the 
genus, but is smaller than the more generally distributed agatha. 
Several males of Leuceronia thalassina , Boisd., were seen, all out of 
reach. They flew rather high, among the tops of the trees, and 
seemed to avoid the path. Belenois gidica , B. severina , and the 
wide-spread B. mesentina , were all taken in the Kloof; the latter, 
a male, flew fast. The path through the dark wood looked the very 
place for Satyrids, but only three were met with, two Yphthima 
asterope, one typical, the other of the var. norma , and a shade-loving 
Mycalesis , of which Mr. Trimen says: “ near campina , Auriv., also 
like anynana , Butl., but the underside very red.” Our old friend 
Papilio demodocus put in an appearance. A small, worn Lycaenid, 
probably Gacyreus lingeus , Cram., a male; a tailed Blue, (?) Deudorix 
sp., ?, which may possibly be new, and a male Tarucus telicanus , 
represented that group. Three large Geometers, two of them 
