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of the environs of Suez, nnd above all of the Steppe 

 country near Dabaa, Marsa Matruh and Solium will, in 

 more settled times, give us new records. Orlain of the 

 Western Oases may also furnish us with new species for 

 Egypt, as may Upper Klgypt, where little collecting has 

 been done save in Ihe immediale vicinily of Luxor and 

 Assuan. 



The writer wishes to express his great personal 

 indebtedness to Ü' Gough and M' G. Storey of the Min- 

 istry of Agriculture for the assistance they have rend- 

 ered him in supplying him with references and data. 

 His notes are based not only on his own observations 

 published from time to time since 190Ô in the Entomo- 

 logical Record, ])ul also on those of Lord Rotlischild, 

 (Nov. Zool. 1902 and l'.l()r)),Mr T.H. Ahnsden formely of 

 Alexandria and Mr Bethune-Baker (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 London 1.S94), Mr (layner. Miss D. Jackson. (Ent. Re- 

 cord. 191U) Mr (;. (iurney (in litt) and last but not least 

 of (^ol. N. Manders. F.E.S. dead on the field of honour 

 at Gallipoli, whose loss is deeply regretted by all British 

 entomoiogists and all natuialists who have been pri\i- 

 leged to hear this careful student and itleal controver- 

 sialist. 



Note on the Rhopalocera of Sinai 



Before proceeding to the enumeration ol ihe Egyp- 

 tian Rhopalocera I must lirst give a. biief list of the spe- 

 cies till now reported from Ihe Sinai l^Miinsula by the 

 verv few collectors. Klug, and the Germans Kneucker 



