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two of the pretty little Bees Prosopis b-lineata, taken at a red 
flowering shrub. The only other Hymenopteron was an Ichneumon- 
fly with Lycoid colouring. 
A Fly that seemed to mimic a pedunculated Wasp Colonel Yer- 
bury says may be the male of Baccha picta , Wied., of which that 
author described the female only from the Congo and Guinea. 
Another fly taken would appear to be Sarcophaga carnaria. 
Beetles proved less numerous than might have been expected: 
two Tiger-beetles, the first we had seen in South Africa, Cicindela 
Candida , Dej., and C. capensis, Fabr., were common close to the 
sea on the bare sand, which they so closely resembled in colour as 
to be scarcely visible save when on the wing. Also running on 
the sand was a nameless Zophosis and an equally nameless Anoplo- 
chilus. The flowers of a species of Iris produced Camptolenes fastuosa, 
Lac., besides abundance of Malacosoma polita . 
Lissogenius conspersus was taken flying in the sun, as was also 
Scarabaeus convexus, Hausm., and the Cassid Aspidomorpha tecta , 
Boh., the latter looking like a golden spangle floating in a sunbeam. 
The Hopliine Khoina bilatemlis, Thunb., was found on flowers, and 
Eurynotus muricatus , Kirby, under bark. 
The Coreid Serinetha amista, Germ., seems to mimic a Lycus. 
Another bug taken was the Beduviid Harpactor segmentarius, Germ. 
Orthoptera were rather common, conspicuous among them was a 
very fine specimen of the large, heavy and sluggish Phymateus 
(?) leprosus, more glaucous than those taken at Ladysmith, so that they 
match more closely the light-coloured sand. Mr. Kirby thinks that 
it may possibly be a new species [Plate II., Fig. 7]. The beautiful 
apple-green Tryxalis stali, darker above, paler beneath as is so often 
the case, was found at the verge of vegetation, while an abundant 
Grasshopper found on the bare sand was highly cryptic. A curiously 
formed small Hemerobiid Neuropteron, Mantispa (?) tenella , Erichs., 
was taken on the wing; seen for the first time its resemblance to 
a Mantis was startling. 
Perhaps the locality was too much exposed for butterflies, at all 
events they were neither numerous nor remarkable :—Amauris 
albimaculata, a female ; Eurytela hiarbas, within 100 yards of the sea; 
Byblia goetzius, a female, “ dry ” ; Pseudonympha cassius; Argiolaus 
silas, a female; Mylothris ruppellii, a female; Pinacopteryx charina; 
Colias electra; Teracolus omphale, a female, and the Skipper Eretis 
djaelaelae. A Geometer, Obolcola inconclusaria, a male, and the 
Lymantriid Aroa discalis, which was common flying about the 
scrub, were the only moths. 
