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around the clumps of tamarisk at El Ferdane and elsewhere, in 

 the neighbourhood of the Suez Canal. Ateiiclms sacer (the 

 Scarabseus of the ancients) was found also in the Desert, and at 

 the Pyramids of Geezeh, but far more plentifully on the road to 

 Laurium and Marathon, two and a half months later. 



Of the eight species of Coleoptera that I came across on mj'- 

 second visit to Cairo, and in my voyage up the Nile, one 

 kind only was plentiful, Sterasjns squamosa, one of the green 

 metallic Buprestidse, and of this bright-coloured beetle there were 

 any amount, as it swarms on the tamarisks (January — March) at 

 Erment, the ancient Herraopolis, a short distance up the river 

 south of Luxor; and at this latter place a large number had 

 been stored since the preceding season, in a terra-cotta gourd, for 

 sale to tourists in December. 



Respecting Orthoptera there is comparatively little to relate. 

 I discovered the red variety of (Edipoda germanica to be as 

 widely distributed in the East as jjrevious experience had made 

 me acquainted with its occurrence in Switzerland, Ital}^ and 

 Corsica, for I found it on the banks of the Pharpar on the 19th 

 of April, where it took its short flights amid the corn ; and 

 again in the neighbourhood of Alexandretta, in the direction 

 of Issus, on the 28th of the same month, as we toiled up among 

 the myrtles, pomegranates, Portugal laurels, and sty rax trees, 

 beneath a very hot sun, to the ruins of the old castle of Merkes, 

 two hundred yards from the shore; and lastly, I noticed it on the 

 road leading to Marathon, on the 5th of June, as also previously 

 at Belgrade, on the 28th of May. 



Acridiuvi tataricum, a locust with smoky brown wings, 

 likewise a common species in Italy and Corsica, was also found 

 near Alexandretta, on the road to Marathon, and at Be3'rout as 

 well. 



Of Mantis religiosa I obtained a specimen ofl" the orange trees 

 in the Island of Roda, in March, and another clinging to a bough 

 of Ficus elasticus was brought me at Beyrout in April. 



There are also several grasshoppers that I collected in 

 Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey and Greece, chiefly in the 

 last-named country, but which, if difl"ering in kind, do not diff"er 

 in their light brown or dust-coloured hue, as well as general 

 appearance, from our common field grasshoppers at home. They 

 are at present unnamed, as there is little use in taking Orthopteia 



