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Vachal, a male said by Colonel Bingham to be not typical; X. divisa , $; 
and X. flavo-rufa , De Geer, four females; the last two species were 
practically confined to the purple flowers of a Leguminous shrub; 
flavo-rufa has a strong odour like that of our English Bumble-bees. 
Other Aculeates taken were the long-pedunculated Wasps Belonogaster 
praunsi (said by Colonel C. T. Bingham to be not typical); the slender 
dark-blue-winged Eumenes tinctor, of both sexes, one male specimen, 
of Saussure’s variety, very starved examples; the dull grey Icaria 
cincta, $ ; Pompilus ruficeps , Smith, a female; a male Pompilus which 
is possibly new; Polistes marginalis, Fabr., £; Larra agilis, Smith, 
a female, taken on a bank of dry earth; a Mason-bee, Ghalicodoma 
coelocera , male, taken at the purple flowers along with the Xylo- 
copae. To these must be added Ants from a community of Campo- 
notus maculatus , and a fine specimen of the common coral-red Braconid 
Iphiaulax whitei . 
The handsome Eristalis taeniops was conspicuous among the Flies, 
which were not very numerously represented; another fly to which 
Colonel Yerbury has been able to assign a name is Chaetolyga dasyops, 
Wied. Other flies were (?) Syrphus sp., Idia sp., and two Bibio- like 
Plecia sp., which floated in the air almost stationary with their long 
legs hanging down; sweeping yielded a Diopsis, a solitary example 
which Mr. Yerrall thought distinct from the others that we brought 
home. 
The wide-ranging Grasshopper Catantops melanostictus was abun¬ 
dant. On the leaves of Pride of Madeira were marshalled a number 
of immature specimens of a gregarious dark orange-striped Acridian, 
the same species that was seen at Bulawayo. 
Although Beetles were not numerous in the Park, we took, in 
addition to the Cetoniids previously mentioned, some interesting 
species: Macroma cognata , a handsome dark olive and yellow Cetoniid, 
flying at flowers; Gametis balteata , De Geer, another of the same 
group, also a conspicuous species though much smaller than the last. 
This beetle is black and red, or perhaps orange-brown more correctly 
describes its decoration. On the Second Creek of the Buffalo Biver, 
there grows a profusion of a climbing Composite with greenish-white 
flowers (? Senecio sp.), a plant nevertheless in general habit and 
appearance very suggestive of Clematis vitalba , Linn. On one of 
these plants I took a number of specimens of two species of Haplo- 
lycus, which are represented in the National Collection but as yet 
unnamed. These Malacoderms have the usual Lycus coloration, viz. 
orange-brown with the apical two-fifths of the elytra black, and a 
black stripe down the middle of the thorax. On the same day, on 
