Locust chased by dogs, 39.
eaten by Kafirs, 72.
eaten by poultry and bustards,
72.
impaled on barbed wire, 55.
swarm, 71.
Longicornia, 201.
Habits &c., 201.
Lophoceros leucomelas, 164,166.
Lophonotus, sp., 244.
Lost in the wood-busb, 91.
Luciola capensis, 197.
lyccmesthes liodes, 234.
Lycauges donovani, sp. n., 240,
Lycus ceolus, 196.
ampliatus, 196.
bremei, 123, 196.
constrictus, 196.
dilatatus, 196.
distanti, sp. n., 196.
integripennis, 196.
kolbei, 196.
pyriformis, 196.
rostratus, 196.
subtrabeatus, 196.
zonatus, 196.
DygceidUe, 45, 67, 247.
Lygceosoma villosula, 247.
Lygceus campestris, sp. n., 247, 253.
desertus, sp. n., 247, 252.
elegans, 247.
planitice, sp. n., 247, 252.
rivularis, 247.
septus, 247.
trilineatus, 247.
Lygdamia capitata, 258.
Mabuia slriata, 174.
— — trivittata, 87, 173, 174.
Great resemblance to snake
when curled up, 87.
Inhabit boles with toads, 87.
Machetes pugnax, 169.
Machla porcella, 199.
MacLachlan, R., 256.
Macroglossa trochilus, 236.
Macroma cognata, 194.
Macronyx capensis, 164, 168.
Magato, chief of the Makatese, 107.
Magwambas, the, 100.
Dress, 101.
Funeral dances &c., 102.
Killing an ox and great dance,
102.
Love of strong liquor, 102.
Number in the Spelonken, 101.
Originally refugees from sur-
rouniding districts, 100.
Maiden-hair ferns, 45.
Maize cultivated by Kafirs, 83.
Majuba Hill, 10, 90, 120, 128, 135.
Makapan’s Cave, 82, 84.
Immense slaughter of Kafirs,
82.
Kafirs blockaded by Boers, 82.
Makapan’s Poort, 81.
Scene of murder by Kafirs in
1854, 81.
Makatese, the, 107.
Location in the Spelonken, 107.
Malacodermata, 196.
Malays at Gape Town, 5.
Mamestra breviuscula, 238.
renisigm, 238.
Mammalia, 152,157.
Mangoes, 125.
Man’s development of the Transvaal
a struggle with the different forces
and agents of Nature, 89.
Manticora tuberculata, 50, 187.
Mantis sacra, 258. ’
Maritzburg= Pietermaritzburg, 121,
127.
Mashonaland trek, 85.
Maura rubro-ornata, 259.
Mavendas, the, 107.
Iron-smelting and iron manufacture,
107.
Making a pick or hoe, 108.
Megachile maxillosa, 210.
Megalonychus interstitialis, 188.'
Melanitis leda, 232.
Melinesthes umbonata, 194.
Melittophagus meridionalis, 106.
Melybeeus crassus, 195.
Men who early in life visit South
Africa seldom finally leave it, 87,
138,139.
Menius distanti, sp. n., 205.
Merops apiaster, 44,152, 166.
Mesa diapherogamia, sp. n., 211, 225.
Mesops abbreviatus, 259.
Micranterus validus, 199.
Microstylum dispar, 244.
Milvus cegyptius, 66, 165.
Mimicry, 41, 66, 92.
Mimosa-bark, 116.
Miomantis fenestrata, 258.
Mirperus jaculus, 246.
Mist and fog, 116.
Monitor, the, 77, 87, 174.
Monochelus, sp., 192.
MonoleptaJtaveola, 206.
Monticola brevipes, 166.
Morcegamus globiceps, 202.
Motacilla capensis, 49, 70, 164, 168.
Attacking a moth, 70.
Pursuing species of Acrcea, 70.
Moths flying to light, 122.
Mus coucha, 159.
rattus, 152, 159.
(Isomys) pumilio, 159.
'Musca domestica, 244.
Museum at Cape Town, 5.
at Durban, 121.
at Port Elizabeth, 8.
Mutilla albistyla, sp. n., 211, 225.
tetensis, 211.
Mycalesis perspicua, 232.
Mygnimia belzebuth, sp. n., 211, 218.
depressa, sp. n., 211, 219.
distanti, sp. n., 211, 220,
fallax, sp. n., 211, 221.
Mylabris capensis, 199.
grondali, 199.
lunata, 199.
mixta, 199.
ophthalmica, 92, 199.
Mylabris transversalis, ,126,199.
tristigma, 199.
Mylothris agathina, 234.
Myoxus murinus, 159.
Myriopoda, 181.
Myrmecocichla formicivora, 166.
Myrmeleon trivirgatus, 256.
Nanotragus scoparius, 159.
Nassunia bupaliata, 240.
Native commissioners and treatment
of Kafirs, 98. ,
Nauphmta circumvagens, 258.
Nectarinia famosa, 166.
Nemognatha, 199.
Nephila transvaalica, sp. n., 91, 179,
180.
Small colonies living in gigantic
webs, 91,179.
Neptis agatha, 233.
Nerium oleander, 18.
Neuroptera, 255.
Habits &c., 255.
Neurosymploca agria, sp. n., 230.
concinna, 236.
Newcastle, 9, 119.
Nezara capicola', 246.
viridula, 246.
Night in a wagon, 96.
Nilaus brubru, 167.
Nomophila noctuella, 153, 241.
Nucras tessellata, 174.
Numida coronata, 13, 72.
Nylstroom, 80.
Nysius novitius, sp. n., 247, 254.
Oceanic birds, 4.
OchropMebia ligneola, 259.
Ocypeté megacephala, 180.
(Ecanthos capensis, 258.
(Edalus acutangutus, 260.
citrinus, 260.
marmoratus, var., 260.
nigro-fasdatus, 260.
plena, 260.
(Edicnemus capensis, 169.