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The lights at the hotel yielded only Dorylus helvolus, all males, 
the very widely distributed Acidaliid Idaea jihulata , and one or two 
other moths not yet named. 
The cosmopolitan Dermestes vulpinus shared the hotel accom¬ 
modation with ns, while Gimex lectularius, Linn., was even more 
intimate. 
Thus ended our delightful collecting at East London, a place less 
known entomologically than many others in South Africa. 
Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, lat. 34° S. 
SECOND VISIT. September 30th, 1905. 
The stoppage on the return voyage gave us a long morning’s 
collecting; but an accident separated us, so that while I visited 
Humewood, about a mile and a half to the south-east, Dr. Dixey spent 
his time, more profitably as it turned out, on the more sheltered 
slopes of the left bank of Baaken’s River, just north of Port 
Erederick. At this spot butterflies were plentiful. The males of 
Colias electra were common, as were both sexes of Synchloe hellica , 
while Pyrameis cardui was in abundance, some worn, but many in 
fine condition. The Skipper Cyclopides metis , Linn., was fairly com¬ 
mon, but only two were taken, together with one Gegenes letterstedti, 
a female; but out of many Lycaenids seen flying about only a 
single specimen of Zizera lysimon was secured. This Blue was found 
by us over a wide range of country, but nowhere in any numbers 
except in the Rain Forest at Victoria Falls. 
A yellowish-brown Grasshopper, Epacromia thalassina , Fabr., 
with head, thorax and jumping legs green, was also taken. 
On the north wall of the Fort itself, or on the ground close by, 
considerable numbers of the red and brown Bug Scantius forsteri, 
Fabr., were found, for the most part paired. Many of them exuded 
a drop of clear liquid when pinned, and in one or two a slight, some¬ 
what offensive odour was detected. 
The swampy heath-like waste beyond Humewood and the woods 
at the back of it proved very barren of insect life, partly perhaps 
from the uniformity of the vegetation, partly from exposure to the 
sea-winds. A few Synchloe hellica of both sexes and three or four 
Pyrameis cardui were the only butterflies seen. 
Stone-turning yielded a small Beetle which Mr. L. Peringuey 
believes to be a new species of Anaulacus, but possibly a Microns ; 
four Enrynolus muricatus, also another species of the same genus 
