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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



hospital a fine long-horned beetle, the Lebbek-borer {Xystrocera 

 globosa), and a species of Attagenus. Light did not seem to 

 attract very many insects, but I obtained the following species 

 at it, mostly single specimens: Lepidoptera — Agrotis imta '> , 

 Prodenia litura, Earias insulajia, a very small Nomophila 

 noctuella, and Ephestia cautella ; one beetle, Catharsius jnthecius ; 

 a Trichopteron ; and two fine insects, the big green Sphodro- 

 inantis hwcidata, and the large and beautifully blotched ant- 

 lion, Palpares cephalotes. 



Being in a hospital at Giza, most of my collecting at first 

 was done in the fine Zoological Gardens there. Here the first 

 insects which struck my eye were the common dragonflies, 

 Brachythemis leucosticta with dark-banded wings and Croco- 

 themis erythraa with a scarlet body. These were very abundant, 

 but difficult to catch, jumping up from the gravelled paths as 

 one approached, to settle again a little further ou. In this 

 order I also obtained Orthetriim trinacria, big and greyish blue, 

 Ischnura seiu'gale7if^is, very small, and a good many others which 

 I have been unable to identify. 



Lepidoptera included Pieris rape?, Colias edusa, Danais 

 chrysippus, Pyrameis cardiii, Lampides bceticus, Ziser-a lysimon, 

 Tarucas theophrastus, Chapra mathias, Gegencs nostrodamus (one), 

 and the Pyrale Pachyzancla licarsicalis, which came out in abun- 

 dance from all the undergrowth one touched. The two smallest 

 blues, lysimon and theophrastus, were to be seen in thousands. 



As in Gallipoli, Cyprus, and the other places in this part 

 of the world in which 1 have collected, the most abundant and 

 noticeable orders were Ortboptera and Hymenoptera. The 

 Zoological Gardens provided me in the latter order with series 

 of Xylocopa cestuans, Apis mellifica fasciata, Anthophora quadri- 

 fasciata, the minute Nomioides variegata, Sceliphron spirifex, Phil- 

 antlius triangidum, Vespa orientalis, Eumenes gracilis, E. viaxil- 

 losus, E. pomiformis, Polistes gallica, and Myzine zonata. The 

 last six I found in all the localities in which I collected, Polistes 

 gallica appearing to be the commonest Egyptian insect. Single 

 specimens were obtained of Crocisca scutellarls and an Odynerus 

 near miimtus. 



Of Ortboptera I took series of Chrotogonus Itiguhris. Oxy- 

 coriphus compressicornis, Epacromia tlialassina, Acrotylus ptat- 

 ruelis, and both green and brown examples of the large Tryxalis 

 imguicidata. I also saw a very large brown Mantis on an acacia, 

 but could not reach it. 



The only Coleoptera were an orange Galeracid, liliapidosoma 

 foveicollis, and a big black species of Heteromera, Ocnera Jdsi^ida, 

 which I found in great abundance in an empty tub. 



Hemiptera were noticeable by their absence in this as in 

 all other localities, and I only took one specimen of the minute 

 diptera-like Nysius ericce. 



