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greatly indebted to my old friend the Kev. F. D. Morice, who spent 

 much time over them. 



Ants did not make themselves very obvious. On the battlefield 

 of Kerreri, during an extremely hurried visit, I managed to secure a 

 worker of Camjjonotus sericens, F. In the hotel at Khartum my first 

 capture was a worker of C. syhaticus, Oliv., var. maculatus, F. In the 

 Zoological Gardens close by I took on the trunk of a Parkinsonia 

 three worker ants of which Mr. Morice writes : " This Camponotus is 

 unknown to me, unless it be a form of pubescent, F. ; the pilosity is 

 very curious." I did not meet with either of these three ants in 

 Egypt. In the western suburbs, toward Mogran, I found a worker of 

 Myrtnecocystus viaticufi, Fab., running rapidly over the ground ; in the 

 same neighbourhood, under a stone, I found an ant of which Mr. 

 Morice writes : " Genus ? Species ? Seems to belong to the Poneridce, 

 but I know nothing like it. With the general appearance of a 

 Formicid, it has a long and powerful sting ! " 



Prenolejns longicornis, Latr., hunted on the luncheon table ; while 

 Aphxnocjaster harhara, L., was common in the garden ; a male of the 

 red and black Mutillid Apterogyna savignyi, Klug, was also taken in 

 the hotel, 



Of the difficult genus Myzine I met with three species on the Mogran 

 hunting ground. The commonest appears to be fascicnlata, which the 

 late Mr. Ed. Saunders described from Biskra, of this I took seven 

 specimens, all males ; of rousselii, Guer. (also a Biskra insect), I took 

 four males ; lastly, there were two males which Mr. Morice thinks may 

 be either eegyptiaca, Guer., or giierini, Lucas (^ latifasciata, Palm.) ; 

 perhaps it is the insect represented in fig. 27 of Savigny's Plate xv. 



On the river bank to the east of the town, beyond the water 

 'works, I took a male of Scolia erytlirocepliala, Fab., a handsome 

 insect, black with yellow-ringed abdomen, and purple-tipped wings, 

 with base and costa ferruginous. On the other side of the town I 

 took a female Scolia very similar, but with no ferruginous markings 

 on the wings, which Mr. Morice thinks may be a variety, but possibly 

 a new species. In the same locality as the last I got a small female 

 Scolia, a greyish insect with a yellow abdomen, which Mr. Morice says 

 is quite unlike any species known to him. Of Elis senilis, Fab., I 

 brought home five males, varying greatly in size, some were taken on 

 Tacoma stans, others on Calotropis near the rifle ranges. 



The Sphegidse were numeroc^ily represented. The only Ammophila 

 that I met with at Khartum as a solitary female of gracillima, 



