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from all other species known to ine "* ; also a Schoenohius and a Ghilo, 

 both of which appear to be new. With these novelties were the less 

 remarkable Endotricha consohrinalis, ZelL, and the very generally 

 distributed Hypsopygia mauritialis, G-n., a species near the British 

 Pyralis costalis. Fab. 



It is curious in how many places and under what different circum- 

 stances I have taken single specimens of Acridium xgyptiacum, L. 

 Here it came to light, accompanied by other Acridians and crickets (not 

 yet named), as well as the Mantid Emfusa egena, Charp., and the 

 cockroach, Derocalymma p)orcelUo, G-erst. 



The huge but dingy water-bug, Limnogeton fieheri, Mayr, was 

 accompanied by a number of beetles, many of them obscure species that 

 I have been unable to identify : — Opatriim suhsulcatmn, Eeiche, in some 

 numbers ; Opatrum sp. ; Tanymecus sp. ; Teeniolobus sp. ; Chlsenius 

 sp. ; Pcedertis sp. ; Luciola sp., not in the British Museum ; and lastly 

 a male of the common ant Myrmecocystus viaticus, Fab. 



At our most southerly point, Gebel En, Lat. 12° 40' N., 238 m. 

 from Khartum, I had a very short time for collecting. The thin scrub 

 was very dry, there was scarcely any herbage, and but one or two 

 shrubs were still in flower. The heat was intense, 114° F. in the shade, 

 at the same time the sense of hurry was most disconcerting. Under 

 these adverse conditions all that I succeeded in taking back to the ship 

 were two dragon-flies and six butterflies. A male Danaida chrysippus, 

 L., with the usual scent, differed from the type only in having the 

 veins of the hind- wings margined with white ; of two Teracolus halimede, 

 King, one had a large piece missing from a hind- wing ; two T. 

 eupompe, Klug ; and, lastly, a T. evarne, Klug, the only specimen that 

 I met with. All these Teracoli were males, and the two last named 

 species decidedly " dry." 



That night we slept at Roseires (not to be confounded with the 

 place of the same name on the Blue Nile) . Here again insects came to 

 light, viz. : — Cirphis loreyi, Diip., as before ; the ubiquitous Nomophila 

 noctueUa, Schiff. ; a yellowish Arctiid, superficially rather like a Nona- 

 gria, not known to Sir George Hampson ; another specimen of the new 

 Antarchsea previously taken at Kosti ; a Lymantriid which Sir Greorge 

 Hampson considers to be the male of an undescribed female from 

 British East Africa, and has described as Lselia seminuda, sp. n.f ; and 

 the Acridian Oxycoryphus comfressicornis, Latr. The next morning a 



* Annals and Magazine of Nat. Hist, Ser. S, Vol. V., May, 1910, p. 437. 

 t Annals and Magazine of Nat. Hist., S«r. 8. Vol. V., May, 1910, p. 441. 



