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Boh.; also the Phytophaga, Ootheca laevipennis , Jac., Gynandroph- 
thalma malvernensis , Jac., var., and Luperus inconspicuus , Jac., as well 
as a rather pretty Bug Veterna sanguineirostris , Thunb., the common 
Grasshopper Catantops melanostictus, and the Tettigid Prototettix 
impressus. 
We took two pedunculated Wasps, Belonogaster praunsi, and 
Ammophila ferrugineipes, a male; also an Ichneumon-fly, and a 
number of Ants, Gremastogaster sordidula, var., and Pheidole irritans, 
of which last the soldiers alone have big red heads. 
Turning over stones yielded the Beetles Trigonopus marginatus, 
and Lissogenius conspersus , Burm., as well as the common South 
African Reduviid Physorrhynchus crux , and two Scorpions. 
A specimen of the Scarab Syrichthus spurius , Burm., was picked 
off the ground, while Mr. Rattray found a specimen of the large 
thick-legged Coreid bug BJiyticoris terminalis , Burm., also a large 
Weevil with very hard integuments, Mecorrhynchus loripes, Schonh., 
and two Millipedes whose integuments turned the point of No. 16 
pins. Mr. Wood found lying dead on the left bank of the Nahoon a 
Carabid beetle, Haplotrachelus sp., which is not in the National 
Collection. 
The Kaffir boatman caught several of a Psammodes unrepresented 
at South Kensington, they were crawling over the rocks by the lower 
landing-place, nearly opposite the Boat Club House. 
A few Snails were picked up, viz. a young specimen of 
Pachnodus natalensis, Krauss; a variety of the Helix-like Tropido- 
phora insulare, Pfr., and a number of the very long, finely sculptured 
spires of Ooeliaxis layardi, Ad. & Aug. 
Lastly, on the west bank when it was quite evening a Hesperid 
was netted, Sarangesa motozi. 
An old termitarium on the high ground above the Club House 
yielded, besides sundry ants ( Gremastogaster weitzecheri , Emery), a 
Night Adder, a small serpent said to be very poisonous. 
Since our return to England, we have been much concerned at 
hearing of a disastrous flood at East London, which seems to have 
devastated the island in the River Nahoon where some of our 
collecting was done, and to have caused the death by drowning of 
several natives, including our Kaffir boatman and his family. Much 
damage has been done on the banks of the Nahoon and Buffalo 
rivers, and part even of the Queen’s Park is reported to have been 
washed away. 
Acting on the advice of Messrs. Wood and Rattray, we spent the 
next day, September 28th, on the Second Creek of the Buffalo 
