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that may be new ; one larva of Lueiola sp.; the Cockroach Deropeltis 
erythrocephala , as is so common with the group, was very local 
and markedly gregarious. 
Two Snakes found under a log warned me to be discreet in prying 
into secluded dwelling-places. I was fairly accustomed to Scorpions. 
Five specimens of an undetermined beetle were found on Com¬ 
posite flowers. Sweeping produced a red-winged Homopteron. Two 
Dragon-flies, Sympetrum sanguineum, Mull., a common species, and 
the large and beautifully coloured Anax mauricanus , Bamb., were 
neither of them easy to catch. A common-looking Greenbottle, 
Lucilia sp., was taken, but the species, or others like it, was abundant 
throughout our journey. 
The flowers of a yellow Chrysanthemum in the garden of the 
Humewood Hotel attracted a certain number of insects: Apis 
adansoni; the active green Longicorn Promeces linearis; and the 
Hopliine Dicranocnemus squamosus , Burm., the last-named in abun¬ 
dance buried in the flowers (and in other Compositae) ; but it was 
noted that their hind-legs did not mimic jaws. 
Cape Town, lat. 34° S. 
SECOND VISIT. October 2nd and 3rd. 
The first day was devoted by the author to the ascent of Table 
Mountain by way of The Gorge. 
Most of the collecting was along the road at about 1200 ft. 
above the sea. Butterflies were scarce ; a few specimens of Pyrameis 
cardui , Pseudonympha vigilans, Trim., and the Lycaenid Cacyreus 
palemon , were all that I saw. 
The fine black and white Carabid, Anthia 10 -guttata, Fabr., was 
not uncommon running on the path; when handled it emitted a very 
pungent odour; one specimen of this beetle was taken in a pine 
wood just above the outskirts of the town. It was noted that this 
beetle was not so swift in its movements as the Biskra species A. 
sex-maculata, Fabr.; probably the struggle for existence is not so 
severe on the Cape Peninsula as on the Sahara. Under stones five 
specimens of Microlestia tabida were taken. But the greatest numbers 
of beetles were found on, or actually in Composite flowers, especially 
those of a species of Senecio. The most abundant species was the 
Hopliine Heterochelus forcipatus, a species in which the posterior legs 
are enormously developed in the male sex; no females were seen. 
With these were a few (3 d, 1 ?) of the allied Dichelus dentipes, of 
which also the males have large posterior legs. There were also a 
