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a single Cuckoo-wasp, the brilliant green Stilbum splendidum, 
Fabr. 1 
Coleoptera were not so numerous as might have been expected, 
but it must be remembered that I paid but little attention to the 
order. The Tenebrionid Ceropria induta , Wied., was abundant 
under rotting logs on Lady Anderson’s Eoad, it is swift in its move¬ 
ments and brilliant in the sunshine with its violet-pink iridescence; 
in like situation I took one of the horned Anthracias (Toxicum , Latr.) 
oppugnans , Walk., together with two of the Endomychid, Eumorphus 
pulchripes, Gerst., a pretty orange and black fungus-eater, and several 
of the Passalid, Tiberius waterhousei, Kaup; also under logs in the 
same place the almost uniformly red Lycostomus similis, Hope, 
together with the excessively hard—impossible to pin— Xylinades 
westermanni, Schonh. (possibly the same as sobrinulus , Dohrn in MS.), 
and two Carabids of the genus Coptodera. Several Carabids of the 
genus Omphra were taken higher up above the Eeservoir, together 
with a number of Pseudo-blaps javanus, Wied. At rest on a Palm 
leaf I found the red and black Telephorus dimidiatus, Fabr. 
In Lady Horton’s Drive I took on the wing the undescribed 
Longicorn Oberea cylindrica, Gahan in MS., a small, slender, pale red 
insect with black-tipped elytra. A native child standing close to 
me picked a specimen of the large Longicorn Xylorrhiza adusta, 
Wied., off the stem of a woolly-leaved shrub ; it was extremely 
cryptic, looking like a piece of dead wood. A Weevil of the genus 
Alcides was taken in the hotel garden by beating. In and about the 
buildings of the hotel, I took several specimens of the Heteromerous 
beetle Derispia coccinelloides, Westw.; since the great Hope Professor 
gave it that name perhaps I, a humble Lepidopterist, may be forgiven 
for having taken it to be a Lady-bird [see Plate IV., Fig. 11]. 
Hemiptera were quite numerous, by far the most conspicuous 
being the black-spotted, metallic, golden-green Pentatomid, Chrysocoris 
stoclcerus, Linn., which was commonly to be seen flying in the sun; 
it was almost as offensive as beautiful. Shortly after death the 
golden tint is to a great extent replaced by blue. Is this due to 
the fading of a yellow pigment, the interference colours remaining 
constant ? The only other Pentatomid was the widely distributed, 
very fetid, green Plautia fimbriata, Fabr. The pale red Coreid, 
Serinetha abdominalis, Fabr., was taken on the wing. The Lygaeids 
were represented by abundance of the little Nysius ceylanicus, 
Motsch., which swarmed upon the flowers of the introduced Erigeron 
canadense , a wandering plant which finds a home alike in the valleys 
1 Some recent writers call this well-known insect S. cyanurum, Forst. 
