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net were two Bugs, a black, yellow-spotted Stenozygum that is possibly 
new, and the large pale ochreous, fetid Pentatomid, Basicryptus 
distinctus , Sign. 
Other beetles taken in the same locality were the Lady-birds 
Chilomenes lunata, and Polysticta macularis, Dej.; Melyris ciliatus, 
Oliv.; the Halticid, Physodactyla africana, Chap.; a Trochalus 
apparently undescribed; a Telephones ; a Lagria ; and a Scarabaeid, 
Syrichthus spurius, Burm., the last found in rotten wood. 
Among Orthoptera were the big Phymateus leprosus, the common 
Catantops melanostictus, Prototettix impressus , the handsome Acridium 
ruficorne , and two unnamed Grasshoppers, one grass-green, the other 
a curiously soft species, black with scarlet rings and spots. 
The only Elies taken were two Bombyliids of the genus Systoechus, 
one at flowers, the other by sweeping. 
A few Aculeates complete the list, viz.: Xylocopa flavo-rufa , a 
male ; X . divisa, a female ; the prettily variegated Polistes fastidiosus, 
a female; the grey Icaria cincta, a worker; two small black Bees, 
Halictus deceptus, Smith, females; lastly a fine distinct red, yellow 
and black wasp, which the late Colonel C. T. Bingham described as 
Odynerus longstaffi, sp . nov., from a specimen in the National Collec¬ 
tion from Natal, hitherto unnamed, making our specimen a co-type. 
[Plate II., Eig. 6; see footnote p. 182, supra .] Lastly an example of 
the blue-green Chrysid Hexachrysis simillimus , Grib., was taken 
settled on a bare rock, gleaming like a piece of copper-glance. 
On our return walk we kicked up a Noctua in the wood, and as 
we reached its upper edge at about 3 p.m., we found Termites on 
the wing in swarms; five specimens were brought home alive in 
separate pill-boxes, but on reaching the hotel it was found that one 
had cast off a wing, another all four wings. Later in the afternoon 
Syntomis huhliveini was found in some numbers flying about, or 
settled upon a particular species of tree. The large Keduviid bug 
Physorrhynchus crux was also taken on the wing. 
On the morning of sailing, September 29th, I paid a somewhat 
hurried visit to the scrub-crowned sandhills seen from the ship 
that August morning when we first anchored at East London, but 
this expedition did not add much to our list. 
Two Ants turned up, Camponotus cosmicus, also taken at Estcourt, 
and Polyrhachis gagates, Smith, of which but a single specimen was 
met with in this land of ants; there were also the following 
Aculeates: Polistes marginalis, worker, Belonogaster guerini , var. dubius , 
worker (a very large specimen), Eumenes tinctor , female, Icaria 
cincta , worker, the big Carpenter-bee Xylocopa flavo-rufa, male, and 
