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S. of Bulawayo, alt. 3900 ft. The Ant, Camponotus fulvopilosus, 
running on the ground. 
Shoshong Road Station, near the tropic, alt. 3250 ft. A number 
of the Ant, Camponotus maculatus , under the bark of a log. 
Artesia Station, Bechuanaland, lat. circa 24° S., alt. 3100 ft. 
Teracolus antigone , a male. Zeritis simplex , Trim., a male. Spindasis 
ella , Hew. Gastalius calice. SyrichtJms (Pyrgus) sataspes , Trim. 
Gomalia albofasciata, a dwarf. The two Skippers were taken at 
water, as well as the Wasp Eumenes lepeletieri , $, and the Honey¬ 
bee Apis mellifica , of the usual S. African form. 
Mochudi Station, Bechuanaland, lat. 24° 22' S., alt. 3100 ft. 
Acraea anemosa, a female, drinking at the drip of a tap. Zeritis 
molomo, Trim., a female. Hesperia spio , Linn. ( vindex , Cram.), at the 
flowers of a small yellow Hibiscus . 
Crocodile Pools Station, about lat. 24° 40' S., alt. 3300 ft. A 
Beetle, Zophosis sp., not in the British Museum Collection, was taken 
running rapidly over the sand, which when alive it exactly matched 
in colour. 1 
Ootsi Station, lat. 25° S., alt. 3620 ft. Axiocerces harpax , a 
female taken, and another seen at a shrub with flowers forming 
yellow tails. A Bug and a small Lady-bird, Scymmos sp., taken at 
Combretum flowers. 
Pitsani Station, lat. 25° 26' S., alt. 4420 ft. Semiothisa brongu- 
saria , a Boarmiid, came to light in the train. The two Beetles, 
Lyctus sp. and Bostrychus brunneus , Murray, were taken this day 
somewhere in British Bechuanaland, but the exact locality was not 
recorded. 
Along the line at frequent intervals we passed the remains of 
the celebrated block-houses, sometimes elaborately fortified, some¬ 
times decorated with stones, after the manner of small railway 
stations at home. Of course the Kaffirs had carried off everything 
of conceivable or inconceivable value, and often nothing was left but 
a heap of stones and a few old meat-tins. This day we had the 
pleasure of travelling in the same compartment with Professor A. 
Penck, of Berlin, and very good company he was. As we passed one 
of these accumulations of stones and tins, an English geologist called 
out, “ See, Penck, is that a kitchen-midden ? ” He promptly replied, 
“ No, that is a Kitchener-midden.” It would have been a clever jest 
for an Englishman. 
Mafeking, lat. 25° 56' S., alt. 4190 ft. Single specimens of Sterrha 
1 Many black beetles cover themselves with fine particles of the sand on which they 
dwell, and so easily escape observation.—See above, p. 163. 
