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SOUTH AFKICA 
Lower Incline Station, circa 4500 ft Five or six specimens of 
Polysticta 2^-signata were found close together under a stone. 
Queenstown, Cape Colony, lat. 31° 50' S., alt. 3500 ft. In the 
Public Gardens just before dark a large (?) Plusia , or small (?) Sphinx 
was seen at Verbena flowers, but missed. Shortly after leaving the 
station two of the widely distributed Crambid, Eromene ocellea, Haw., 
flew to the lights of the train. 
East London, lat. 33° S. Sea-level. 
SECOND VISIT. September 25th—29th. 
Six weeks had elapsed since our first flying visit to this place. 
After an unusual drought it had rained the day before our arrival, 
and it was blowing a violent gale when early in the morning we 
came to the end of our long railway journey of six days and six 
nights. The gale terminated with heavy rain that greatly damaged 
the condition of the butterflies. One victim of the flood, a female 
Saturniid, Arina for da, Westw., was rescued from drowning. 
A good deal of our time was spent on our old ground in the 
Queen’s Park. The Poinsettia flowers were over: energetic sanitary 
reformers had nearly completed the covering in of the unsavoury 
stream, but the operations of the Kaffir workmen had wrought sad 
havoc in some of the best collecting ground. 
Mylothris agathina did not appear to be nearly so common as 
before, but perhaps this was owing to the absence of Poinsettia 
flowers to assemble them. There was, however, no doubt that the 
closely allied M. riippellii was common enough. The males of both 
these species have a strong and seemingly identical sweetbriar¬ 
like scent. The very local and singularly elegant M. trimenia was 
quite common, both sexes being well represented. Its fore-wings are 
white, its hind-wings a beautiful yellow. I compared its scent to that 
of clover. 
Belenois severina and B. zochalia were both very common; of the 
latter the females seemed to be more numerous than the males, but 
perhaps this was because they are more distinctly coloured. 
The beautiful Eronia cleodora was quite common. A few Pina - 
copteryx charina were taken, all “ dry ”; a male Byblia goetzius, 
significantly a very fresh specimen, was distinctly of the “ wet ” form, 
but, with this possible exception, there was no evidence that the 
recent rains had produced any change of type, probably there had 
not been sufficient time. The only Teracoli noticed in the Park were 
