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unique example. There was iu addition a male specimen of a 

 Lymantriad which Sir Greorge Hampson has described* as Porthesia 

 erythrostida, sj). n., and which he says resembles Euproctis rvfnpimc- 

 fata, Walk. The Noctux were more remarkable than numerous ; 

 several specimens of Caradrina {Lapliygma) exigua, Hiibu., the larva 

 of which feeding on cotton, berseem (a kind of clover), and Hibiscus, 

 is quite a jjlague to the farmers of modern Egypt ; a female of Euxoa 

 spinifera, Hiibn., another common Egyptian moth ; four specimens of 

 Sesaniia [Nonagrial cretica, Led. ; one of S. apunctifera, Hmpsn., the 

 latter very distinctly marked, more so than any in the National Collec- 

 tion. Another cotton pest of Egypt, Prodenia litura, F. {littoralis, 

 Bsd.) was represented by a single example. One of the most un- 

 expected visitors was Gopicucullia sublutea, Graes. ; the type of this 

 species came from Eastern Turkestan, and the British Museum 

 possesses but a single example, and that from the desert of Grobi in 

 Northern China, no less than 30° N. and 70° E. of Khartum! Sir 

 George Hampson thinks that desert insects probably have an tuiusually 

 large range, since desert conditions are similar over very large areas. 

 Of Spodoptera mauritia, Bsd., two specimens turned up ; of the 

 common and very active Quadrifid Acantholipes affinis, Butl., only one. 

 Of a Catocaline which is probably a new species of Hypoglaucitis, I 

 took two, and Mrs. Longstaft' another ; a fourth sj)ecimen came to the 

 lights of the steamer at Kasr Ibrim, in Nubia (Lat. 22-35° N.) on 

 January 29th. As might have been expected there were plenty of 

 Py rales among the frequenters of the lamps : two Galleriads, one the 

 dingy Lamoria imhella, Walk., four specimens ; this is a widely dis- 

 tributed African species, ranging from Natal to the Nyanza ; the other 

 Arenipses sahella, Hmpsn., a species found in Arabia and on the 

 Persian Gulf, of which I also got four. Other Pyrales wai-e the almost 

 cosmopolitan Hellula hydralis, Gn., one ; Noctuelia floralis, Hiibn., 

 two ; Polyocha anerastiodes, Warr. and Eoth., one ; the ubiquitous 

 Nonwphila noctuelia, Schift"., three ; Noorda hlitealis, Walk., in abun- 

 dance, a species that ranges from Ceylon over India to Aden ; Eromene 

 ocellea. Haw., two, small and pale when compared with the large 

 nximbers seen in Egypt ; and Etiella, n. sp., still in Sir George 

 Hampson' s hands. Also a Tortrix which Lord Walsingham says is 

 the cosmopolitan Bactra lanceolana, Hiibn. 



For the determinations of the Hymenoptera met with I am 



* Annals and Magazine of Nat. Hist, ser. S, vol. v, May, 1910, p. 43j. 



