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We were somewhat late in the day and a strong wind was another 
adverse condition, so that we got very few butterflies. 
On the island where we lunched, Belenois severina was abundant 
and Mylothris riippellii, the only representative of the genus, was 
common; Pinacopteryx charina , Premia deodor a, and Atella phalantha 
also occurred. A Geometer, Edropis spoliataria , Walk., a small 
Noctua, Omrba (. Emstria ) cornimlans , Wallgr., and a very handsome 
Agaristid, Xantkospilopteryx africana , But!., taken off a tree-trunk, 
completed the Lepidoptera on the island. Sunning itself on another 
tree-trunk close by was a brilliant green Hymenopteron, Ampulex 
mutilloides , Kohl, $. Mr. Battray caught a specimen of the scarlet 
Braconid, Iphiaulax whitei , which appears to be very common in 
South Africa. 
Mr. Wood set a stalwart Kaffir to work with an axe to hack dead 
trees to pieces. This did not prove a very productive operation; 
moreover of the creatures found but a small proportion have yet been 
named. Among the beetles were single specimens of the Longicorn, 
Promecidus ckalybeatus , White; the Sternoxid Alaus moerens, Germ., 
and a species of Notiophygm. Blattae were numerous, Mr. Shelford 
has named for us Hyposphaeria sty lifer a, Burm., immature; Bantua 
(?) brunneriana , Costa, several; also Pseudo-deropeltis albilatera , Stal, 
two specimens, and P. wahlbergi , Stal, a male. Bugs were repre¬ 
sented by a singularly flat form, well adapted to its life under bark. 
It goes without saying that Woodlice were plentiful. 
Taking a boat the Kaffir pulled us a mile or two down the river 
and we landed on the eastern bank, where rich flowery meadows 
promised great things, but the rising of the wind and the lateness of 
the hour led to disappointment. A single Teraeolus achine, <$, a 
Boarmiid moth, Osteodes turbulenta, and a Pyrale, Antigastra morysalis 
were the only Lepidoptera that we brought away from a spot which 
under more favourable conditions should swarm with them. Beetles 
are somewhat less susceptible, and we took on flowers the gem-like 
Cetoniid Oxythyrea haemorrhoidalis, Eabr. (which surely deserves a 
better name) together with the commoner 0. marginalis , also the 
Longicorn Hylomela sexpundata , which closely mimics a species of 
Mylabris (or ? Cerodis) that we met with in South Rhodesia. The 
Acridian Cyrtacanthacaris ruficornis , Fabr., of which two were taken, 
is remarkably coloured: brown, with a paler stripe down the back, 
the blue tibiae are furnished with conspicuous white spines tipped 
with reddish. 
Sweeping added to the list the Lady-birds Atechna hebe , Oik., 
and Cryptocephalus flavago , Suff., the Weevil Ellimenistes squamifer, 
