. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 426 Annals of the South African Museum. They are sucli formidable-looking animals that natives and colonists alike are afraid of them. Thus among the natives of Northern Rhodesia Enyaliopsis durandi is greatly feared. A Native Commis- sioner writes : " The natives and others stand in dread of this insect. They inform me that it exudes a fluid which, coming in contact with any part of the body, forms a sore very much resembling the appear- ance of leprosy, and that to effect a cure takes some two
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 426 Annals of the South African Museum. They are sucli formidable-looking animals that natives and colonists alike are afraid of them. Thus among the natives of Northern Rhodesia Enyaliopsis durandi is greatly feared. A Native Commis- sioner writes : " The natives and others stand in dread of this insect. They inform me that it exudes a fluid which, coming in contact with any part of the body, forms a sore very much resembling the appear- ance of leprosy, and that to effect a cure takes some two or three ; This belief is, of course, groundless, but the fluid, a greenish liquid, is squirted to a short distance from a large cavity situated on the side of the prosternum. Having had occasion to. FIG. 3. bottle a Hetrodes in a weak solution of ammonia, I found that the liquid had solidified into a hard waxy matter insoluble in alcohol. Certain kinds are reported to attack harness and tents of travellers, etc., camping in the karroo. Dr. A. W. Eogers, Director of the Geological Survey of the Union, informs me that any cloth or wearing apparel left at night near the waggon is immediately attacked and partly destroyed. He has supplied me with a photograph showing certain individuals clinging to the tent of his travelling waggon (fig. 3). They are more mimerous in certain parts of South Africa than in others ; thus Hetrodes pupus is somewhat rare in the neighbourhood of Cape Town, and seems to occur singly or in pairs; it is to be found in short herbage or in very low bushes. Its congener H. naniaquensis. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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