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another bush of the same climbing Composite growing a hundred 
yards higher up the stream, I took an example of Gametis balteata, 
and was at once struck by the striking resemblance of the two 
insects. I may remind any entomologists who may not be familiar 
with living specimens of beetles of the Lycus group, that during life 
the orange-brown colour is much redder than might be supposed 
from cabinet specimens, whereas the Cetoniid preserves its colour 
well. The very next day Dr. Dixey saw both these beetles in some 
numbers (3 Haplolycus and 8 Gametis) in the Queen’s Park on and 
about a flowering tree and noted their similarity. With them were 
two specimens of a Lycoid-coloured Braconid ( Zombrus sp.). The 
Gametis resembles the Haplolycus the other way on, the head of the 
one being coloured like the tail of the other, but probably that fact 
does not detract from any benefit that it may derive from the 
likeness. Mr. G. A. K. Marshall has proved experimentally that 
Lycid beetles are very distasteful to Kestrels and Baboons. Gametis 
balteata may now be added to the wonderful synaposematic Lycoid 
group figured in Mr. Marshall’s valuable paper. 1 
Other beetles taken in the Park were the Longicorns, Promeces 
iris , Pascoe, and Alphitopola maculosa, Pascoe, var., by beating; 
Trigonopus marginatus, Wied., several under stones; also under a 
stone the Staphylinid XantJiolinus hottentotus, Sachse; a Phytophagid 
not in the National Collection, Ateckna inenaerabilis, Yogel, var.; 
Apoderus nigripennis, Fabr.; the metallic green Colasposoma flavipes, 
Har.; the Cassid AspidomorpJia silacea , Boh. {tecta, var., Boh.); and a 
Weevil, Balaninus apicalis, Fahr., var. B., which was obtained by 
beating. 
Two Bugs complete the list of insects taken in the Queen’s Park : 
a black Pentatomid with red-tipped antennae, Aspongopus lividus, 
Dist., and a large Coreid, Garlisis wahlbergi, Stal, dark brown with 
red-ringed antennae, a very striking thing on the wing, very 
stinking in the net. 
I may remark that throughout South Africa large Millipedes 
{Julus) are very common. Many of these are of a foxy-brown colour; 
a black one with red-brown legs found under a stone in the Queen’s 
Park measured 5J inches in length. 
On September 27th, by the kindness of Mr. John Wood, who was 
accompanied by Mr. Rattray, we spent a very pleasant afternoon on 
the Nahoon River, a few miles to the north-east of the town. 
1 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1902, pp. 340, 344, 380, 515-518, and Plate XVIII. “ A 
synaposematic group” is a group exhibiting the same “ warning colours,”—Mullerian 
Mimicry. 
