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Mautid, Calidotnaiitis savignyi, Sauss., was found on a water-lily on the 

 breakfast table ; doiilitless it had been attracted by the lights the night 

 before. Several beetles also visited the lights — which were acetylene 

 and not very brilliant — Coccinella rufescens, Mills. ; Brachinus sp. ; 

 Ora sp. ; Tanymecus sp. (the same as at Kosti) ; Piederus sp. ; and 

 Clilsenhis sp. 



The next morning we left Hillet Abbas at 10.30 a.m., a bare, 

 miserable place, not improved entomologically by a tearing wind. 

 However, besides three dragon-flies, I managed to get hold of one 

 Azanus ubaldus, Cram., a female ; a female Teracolict^ daira, King ; and 

 two males of T. kalimede, Klug, var. leo, Butler. This last is a 

 delicate insect, white with a cadmium-yellow flush ; it appears to have 

 a slight somewhat disagreeable scent. I missed a Blue, probably 

 Polyommatus hsetimis, L. 



On our way doM^i stream again I got three quarters of an hour's 

 collecting at Kosti in a small vegetable garden close to the lauding 

 23lace. Only two butterflies rewarded iny efforts, a male Zizera 

 lysimon, Hiibn., and a male Danaida chrysippus, L., the last, taken at 

 onion flowers, was almost typical, with merely a little white along the 

 veins of the hind- wings. It proved tenacious of life and had the usual 

 characteristic scent. 



The flowers of carrot yielded a female of Elis senilis, F., a Scoliid 

 of which I had taken several males at Khartiim. When I first met 

 with this in Egypt I had no idea that the sexes were conspecific. The 

 male, very variable in size, is smaller, its abdomen orange-red, ringed 

 with black, its head and thorax covered with grey pubescence (whence 

 the name) , its wings transparent. The female is larger and stouter : 

 the pubescence orange, abdomen blue-black, and about two-fifths of 

 the wings purple. On the same flowers I took the beautiful Eumenes 

 lepelletieri, Sauss., one of each sex, a fine yellow insect with a black 

 cross on its abdomen ; a pair of the yellow-eyed Tachysphex fluctuatus, 

 Grerst. ; a male of Ody nevus (?) heUatulus,Sa.\\ss.; also a Pompilid which 

 puzzles Mr. Morice, but which he thinks may be Salius hretonii, Giier. 

 With these was an Egyptian grasshopper, Chrotogonius luguhrls, 

 Blanch. 



We stopped at Tawila (185 m. above Khartum) to till up with fuel. 

 Fortunately the process of " wooding " was a slow one and I got ashore 

 from 1.0 to 4.30 p.m. The terrain was covered with a scanty scrub 

 just above the level of the river ; the small trees were mostly acacias, 

 but all were exasperatingly thorny. Collecting was good, in spite of 



