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of the kind. Mr. Morice informs me that Stilbum infests the larvae of 

 the larger species of Eumenes (especially dimidiatijoennis) exactly as 

 Ichneumons do those of Lepidoptera. 



Chrysis nasuta, Mocsary, is so similar to Stilbmn in size and 

 general appearance that I doubtless confused the two, and brought 

 home but one male and three females ; this is unfortunate, since it 

 appears that Mocsary in 1902 described the male only, from Salisbury, 

 Rhodesia ; he has seen my specimens and believes them to be the two 

 sexes of nasuta. Chrysis pallidicornis, Spin., was the commonest of the 

 genus, and I secured seven specimens. It is variable in the colour of 

 its tail, which may be red, reddish, or green (var. Moris, Mocs.). 

 Of C. fascioeata, Klug, I took two ; of the rainbow-coloured E. auri- 

 fascia, Brulle, one ; the last named is, I am informed, a rarity, but it 

 extends as far as the Cape. Of the common Egyptian Hedychriditmi 

 aheneum, Dhlb., I took but one. The genus Parnopes was represented 

 by a male and two females of what both Mr. Morice and M. du 

 Buysson are agreed is a new species. Nearly all these Chrysids, but 

 not the Stilbum, wei'e obtained by sweeping JErva ? javanica, Juss. 



Insects of other Orders were few in number, thus but a single 

 species of bug was met with, Lygmtis militaris, F., taken among 

 Calotropis ; it appears a very bright red on the wing. Mr. Distant 

 tells me that it is a common species. 



A servant at the hotel brought me a large Mantid in spirit, 

 Hierodula bioculata, Burm., she said that it had come to light at the 

 beginning of February. Of the common North African locust, Acry- 

 dium legyptiacurn, L., I took one. A specimen of Phaneroptera 

 minima, Br., came to light. A number of large earwigs, Labidtira 

 riparia. Pall., were found under a stone near the JTuiction of the two 

 rivers at Mogran ; I had met with the same species near the Great 

 Pyramid. 



It is to be feared that little attention was paid to flies, and those 

 that I brought home were not remarkable. Of Agria (Sarcophaga) 

 nuba, Wied., a species also met with in Egypt, I took a pair. Among 

 Calotropis, on the desert near the rifle ranges, I took two males and a 

 female of Dacus longistylus, Wied., a wasp-like fly which Becker, in 

 his work on Egyptian Diptera, attaches to the same plant. The bril- 

 liantly coloured blue-bottle, Pycnosoma marginale, Wied., was also 

 common on Calotropis, but I suspect that a dead camel close by was 

 even more attractive to it. A solitary Anthrax has not yet been pro- 

 vided with a name. Two specimens of Bhinia (Idia) senea, Walk., 

 complete a somewhat commonplace list. 



(To he continued). 



