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Goccinella ll-piinctata, L., a widely-distributed species, and 

 apparently the common lady-bird of Egypt and the Sudan, 

 as Dr. Longstaff met with it near Cairo, at Aswan, at 

 Khartum, and 125 miles south of that city at El Duwem on 

 the White Nile, Swarms of lady-birds in England are alluded 

 to by E. C. Rye (" British Beetles," p. 228) ; the occurrence 

 of immense swarms of lady-birds on mountains was referred to 

 at a meeting of the Society by Prof. Poulton, quoting Prof. 

 V. L. Kellogg (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 23 et seq.). Kirby 

 and Spence (7th Ed., p. 295) mention having personally 

 witnessed Goccinellae alight upon a ship at sea. 



Dr. G. B. LoNGSTAFF also exhibited a /S'carrt6«ews taken by him 

 on the edge of the desei-t within half-a-mile of the Sphinx. 

 It differed in several structural points from the common 

 S. sacer, L., and has since been identified as S. comj[jressicorim, 

 Klug, an Arabian species. 



Carved Egyptian Scarab. — Professor E. B. Poulton, 

 F.R.S., exhibited a scarab beautifully carved out of a hard 

 limestone. The specimen had been obtained by Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff in Upper Egypt and presented to the Hope 

 Department. Mr. F. LI. Griffith, the Reader in Egyptology 

 at Oxford, pronounced it to be a good example of the art of 

 about the sixth century B.C. — it might possibly be as late as 

 the third century B.C. Mr. W. Holland and Commander J. J. 

 Walker had not found any beetle so likely to have been copied 

 by the artist, as Scarabaeus sacer, L., and Mr. G. J. Arrow, who 

 had examined the specimen, remarked, " The head seems to 

 point to that species undoubtedly, and the striation of the 

 elytra must have been added from the artist's observation 

 of other groups, or from his notions of entomological 

 propriety." 



Species of Two Genera of Coccinellidae captured in 

 coiTU. — Professor E. B. Poulton exhibited a specimen of 

 Adalia ohliterata, L., captured in cop. with Halyzia l8-guttata, 

 L., by Mr. Joseph Collins, of the Hope Department. The 

 specimens were beaten out of a fir-tree at Tubney, Berkshire, 

 on August 5th, 1908. They i-emained paired after being 

 placed in the laurel bottle, and the specimens were seen to be 

 still united. 



PROG. ent. soc. lond., IV. 1909. c 



