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turreted forms, Opeas octona, Chem., and the transparent 0 . mamillata, 
Craven, both under stones, both gregarious. Sweeping grass yielded 
the delicate, transparent, horny Succinea (?) badia, Mor., very near to 
the British S. putris, Linn. A Barotse boy, a servant to Mr. Allen, 
collected for me a number of the dull-looking Paludina capillata , 
Frauen., but exactly where he found them is not on record. 
INSECTS TAKEN ON THE RAILWAY JOURNEY FROM THE VICTORIA 
FALLS TO EAST LONDON. 
September 20,1905.— Matetsi Station, 230 miles from Bulawayo. 
Precis cebrene , seen. Castalius hintza , Trim., a male. Pseudagrion 
(?) deckeni , a small Dragon-fly, the colour of dead grass. 
Katuna Station. Precis cebrene, one female. 
North of Deka Station. Glyphodes ( Dysallacta) negatalis, 
Walk., a Pyrale of very wide distribution, taken in the train by 
Mr. D. Gunn. 
Deka Station. Danaida chrysippus, a female. Lycaena osiris, 
Hopff., a male at water. Gatochrysops asopus, a male, also at water. 
Eumenes lepeletieri, Sauss., a female at water; this is a yellow Wasp 
with a conspicuous black cross on the abdomen. 
Wankie Station, 212 miles from Bulawayo, alt. 2450 ft. 
Teracolns antigone, a male. 
Lukosi Station, 196 miles from Bulawayo. A Carabid beetle, 
Anisodactylus nitens, Pering., under a stone. 
Inyantue Station, 177 miles from Bulawayo. Sphingomorpha 
chlorea, Cram., a Quadrifid Noctua that truly deserves its generic 
name, caught at light in the train by Mr. D. Gunn. It is widely 
distributed in India and Africa. 
S. of Inyantue. A Dipteron, Argyramoeba sp., in the British 
Museum, unnamed. 
Malindi Station, 147 miles from Bulawayo. An Ant-lion, 
Myrmeleon sp., at light in the train. 
September 21, 1905.— Bulawayo, lat. 20° 9' S., alt. 4470 ft., near 
the railway station. Acraea doubledayi; also the widely-distributed 
Lady-bird, Exochomus nigromaculatus, a Bug, and some unnamed 
Orthoptera, all taken by sweeping. 
Plumtree Station, S. Bhodesia, alt. 4560 ft., 65 miles S. of 
Bulawayo. Acraea doubledayi, a female, fluttering close to the 
ground. Axiocerces Jnarpax, one on the flowers of a yellow Composite. 
September 22, 1905.— Tsessebe Station (Tati District), 94 miles 
