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number of Encyophanes sp. (unnamed in Brit. Mus.) of both sexes. 
All these were buried in the disks of the flower with only the hind¬ 
legs protruding. 1 A specimen of the hairy Hopliine Anisonyx lynx , 
Eabr., was taken in another Composite flower, Gazania sp. 
By shaking the flowers of a Senecio into the net the following 
were obtained: Ootheca tricolor, Eabr., two; (?) Hedybius sp., six; 
a very small Weevil, an Erirrhinid of uncertain genus, one; Oosomus 
sp., seven; several Telephori, and a Cricket. 
At the flowers of a yellow leguminous shrub two workers of 
Apis adansoni were taken, together with three Bees of the genus 
Megachile, all males, all distinct species, and all apparently new! 
However, Colonel C. T. Bingham said that it was useless in that 
genus to describe males without females. It was noted with 
surprise that the beautiful strong-scented, golden-yellow blossoms of 
the Protea, an endemic shrub highly characteristic of the Cape 
Peninsula, attracted nothing but a few flies. At about 1400 ft. 
Bombylius lateralis , Eabr., was met with, and the Satyrid Pseudo - 
nympha vigilans up to 1500 ft. 
The summit, 3600 ft., was in dense cloud, for the “ table-cloth ” 
was spread, and the only insects taken at that altitude were hairy 
Hopliines; two Anisonyx lynx , and one A. ursus , Eabr.; two were on 
flowers, one on the wing. 
Turning over stones at the foot of the Lion Hill, circa 300 ft., 
yielded two Ants, Acantholepis capensis; the Beetle Oncotus tardus , 
Sol.; a larva of Luciola sp., and the Cockroach Temnopteryx phalerata, 
Sauss. 
The next day we took train to Simon’s Town, which lies about 
fifteen miles to the south of Cape Town. Here our collecting 
was confined to a strip of sandy ground with eastern aspect, close to 
the shore and at the foot of the line of hills, perhaps 3000 ft. in 
height, capped with sandstone crags, which overlook Simon’s Bay. 
As we came out of the station a large blue-black Carpenter-bee, 
Xylocopa capensis, Lepel., dashed at Dr, Dixey’s head; forthwith I 
made violent efforts to catch the bee, and for some time the be¬ 
wildered entomologist was in considerable peril between the swoops 
of the net and the assaults of the Aculeate.. 
The Heteromerous beetle, Opatrum (?) arenarium, was common 
in a very sandy place under stones, and in like situation were single 
specimens of Harpalus fuscipennis , Wied., and the black and red 
Beduviid bug Acanthaspis lythrodes, Germ., of which the British 
Museum possesses but a solitary example. 
1 See above, p. 248, Fig. 8. 
