NOTES FROM CAIRO. 11 



The only other place m Giza in which I collected much was 

 the garden of the Horticultural Society. Here I added Craspedia 

 minorata (one) and Noctuelia JioraUs to my lepidoptera, and 

 obtained also the following : Orthoptera — Chrotogonns liiguhiis 

 and Paratettix mericlionalis ; Coleoptera — Cicindela melan- 

 cholica, F. {cegyptiaca, Klug) and Pcederus fiiscipes ; Hemiptera — 

 Oxycareniis hyalinipennis ; Hymenoptera — Philanthiis triangu- 

 lum, Pompilus sp., and Notogonia sp. near argyropiga ; Diptera — 

 Argyramoeha leucogaster and some nice Asilidte. The tiger beetle 

 was running about in great numbers on the mud left as the 

 water irrigating the crops subsided ; however, like the English 

 species, it ran so quickly and flew so readily on being approached 

 tbat I obtained verj" few specimens. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON SOME OF THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF THE 

 BRITISH LINE IN FEANCE. 



By Captain H. Douglas Smart, E.A.M.C. 



This is not a scientific paper, but I hope it may be of interest 

 to other mere collectors, whose collecting is now being done 

 somewhere in France. 



From the nature of my occupation, serious collecting has 

 been impossible, and the insects taken or observed are the result 

 of day-time rambles. Collecting by night and by the rearing of 

 larvse have both been impossible. Often I have had no net, and 

 the difficulty of using a net in trenches needs experience for its 

 proper appreciation. 



The period covered is the year ending on September 10th, 

 1916, and the district is the British line from the Belgian 

 Frontier to the Somme. 



In this period the infantry battalion to which I am attached 

 has fought in and out of trenches at several parts of the line 

 and has marched and billeted along most of it. 



My collecting has of course depended upon the nature of the 

 district occupied at any time and the exigencies of my work, the 

 latter varying from an easy two hours a day to an " all out " 

 ninety-six hours in four days. 



As regards nomenclature, or the Confusion of Tongues, I 

 propose to adhere as closely as possible to the 'Entomologist' 

 list, which I consider the most reliable one yet published of our 

 British insects, which appear to differ but little from those of 

 Northern France. 



In this connection I should like to suggest humbly that a 

 responsible committee of ento- and etymologists be appointed o 

 consider all attempts to tamper with the names of established 



