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upon the liiiid-wing ; it had the characteristic odour of the species 

 strongly developed. The most conspicuous insect however was 

 Teracolus protomedia, Klug, which was common enough, but not very 

 easy to catch in the high wind, though I managed to secure nine, all 

 males. This butterfly seemed to be especially attracted hj the red 

 flowers of a Cassalpinia in one of the gardens ; in three of the 

 specimens I detected a scent, slight but distinct, which was noted at 

 the time as " a somewhat impleasant stuffy smell " ; "a slight scent, 

 scarcely agreeable"; "distinct, dusty, hard to describe." The 

 commonest butterfly would appear to have been Teracolus daira, Klug, 

 of which I brought away five males and three females, one of the 

 former being a dwarf ; a female is recorded as having had a clove-pink 

 scent, both in the field and at home. Of T. halvmede, Klug, I got one 

 female ; of T. (?) liagore, Klug, a male. This last must be a very rare 

 species. Dr. Dixey told me that he had never seen a specimen, but he 

 thought that mine must be King's liagore. I also took five males of 

 Belenois mesentina, Cram., three of which had a slight, somewhat hay- 

 like scent. 



The flowers of Parkinsonia attracted, besides the common Xylocopa 

 aeshmns, L., and Eumenes tinctor, Christ, the large handsome grey, 

 black and white bee, Anthophora nubrica, Lep., of which I secured one 

 of each sex ; in company with these M'as an Anthophora that Mr. 

 Morice thinks likely to be the undescribed male of A. incana, Klug, of 

 which I seem to have taken the female at the same flowers in the 

 suburbs of Khartum. 



Late at night we reached Kosti, 192 miles from Kliartum. This 

 is the place that is often called after the name of the district, Groz Abu 

 Guma. Quite a niimber of insects came to the lights of the steamer 

 during the evening. Among them was Cirphis loreyi, Dup., a rarity in 

 England, but common enough in Egypt. There were also two 

 specimens (males) of a Trichiura, which Sir George Hampson thinks 

 to be obsoleta, Klug. My Egyptian specimens quite agree with those 

 in the British Museum from Cairo, but the two from Kosti are 

 identical with three from the Blue Nile, and differ from the others in 

 being smaller, darker, and of a blue-grey tint ;* Then there was a 

 little ochreous Noctuid, a species of Antarchsea, which is not in the 

 British Museum, also a very distinct Lymantriid, a tiny moth nearly 

 black, with an orange body spotted with black, which Sir George Hamp- 

 son has described as Euproctis xanthosoma, sp.n., adding "very distinct 



* Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker has described this form as Trichiura definita, sp. n., Annals and 

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