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the wind, nearly all my captures being made at one or two late acacias 

 that were still in flower. The sense of luirry and the desire to catch as 

 many things as the time permitted interfered with observation. In 

 the midst of my work I tore my net very badly, but fortunately the 

 steamer was not far off and I ran back to get a new one ; curiously 

 enough, two of my best specimens were taken with the damaged net, in 

 spite of a hole quite a foot across. Most of my captui'es were by this 

 time old friends, e.g., Tarneus theophrastus, Fab., two males and a 

 female; Belenois mesentina, Cram., a solitary male; Teracolus profo- 

 medla, Klug, a male with a sweet scent ; T. daira, Klug, three males 

 and two females, one of each sex was unusually large, but on the other 

 hand one female was a veritable dwarf ; T. eupompe, Klug, seven males 

 and one female'; T. halimede, Klug, var. leo, Butl., two males and one 

 female. 



But l>esides these old friends I made some new acquaintances, to 

 wit, Teracolus phisadia, Godt., six of each sex. The male is very pretty 

 and delicately coloured, being pink with a black border to the wings, 

 one of them was noted as having a sweet luscious scent ; the female is 

 sulphur yellow. I also got two T. Calais, Cram, (a Delhi acquaintance), 

 one of them small. Of Herpsenia eriphia, Grodt., I took one of each 

 sex, both quite remarkably small specimens. Two old South African 

 friends also turned up, Leuceronia huquefil, Bsd., a female, and three 

 Virachola antalns, Hopff. 



The only moth that I saw was Sterrlia sacraria, Linn., which I 

 kicked up. There were but two Aculeates in my bag : a male Eumenes 

 tinctor, Christ, and a female E. lepeUetieri, Sauss. 



Late that afternoon we stopped at Fachi Shoya, on Abba Island 

 (176 m. above Khartum) , where the Mahdiusedto live. I landed and 

 collected from 5.15 p.m. to dusk. The following were for the most 

 part disturbed from grass, &c. : — a nearly typical male Danaida 

 chrysippus, L., only slightly dusted with white ; it was tenacious of life 

 and had the characteristic scent ; five females of Teracolus halimede, 

 Klug ; also a female of T. eupompe, Klug, lacking the red tip. It is 

 notable that at Tawila, earlier in the day, males prevailed over females. 

 The female of halimede is variable, the ground colour is usually white, 

 but in a specimen from Ad Duwem it was yellow ; sometimes 

 there is a mere trace of the yellow flush, but occasionally it approaches 

 that of the male, moreover the black markings vary in intensity. 



At Fachi Shoya I got a single moth, a Lithosiid which is almost 

 certainly a new species. A native sailor brought me two beetles, 

 Rhytinota scabrluscida, Escli., and Mrs. Longstalf found a beetle in our 



