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on the edge of the desert within half-a-mile of the Sphinx. 

 It differed in several structural points from the common 

 S. sacer, L., and has since been identified as *S'. compressicornis, 

 Klug, an Arabian species. 



Carved Egvptiax Scarab. — Professor E. B. Poultox, 

 F.R.S., exhibited a scaiab beautifully carved out of a hard 

 limestone. The specimen had been obtained by Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff in Upper Egypt and presented to the Hope 

 Department. Mr. F. LI. Griffith, the Reader in Egyptology 

 at Oxford, pronounced it to be a good example of the art of 

 about the sixth century B.C. — it might possibly be as late as 

 the third century B.C. Mr. W, Holland and Commander J. J. 

 Walker had not found any beetle so likely to have been copied 

 by the artist, as Scarabaeus sacer, L., and Mr. G. J. Arrow, who 

 had examined the specimen, i-emarked, "The head seems to 

 {)oint to that species undoubtedly, and the striation of the 

 elytra must have been added from the artist's observation 

 of other groups, or from his notions of entomological 

 propx-iety." 



Species of Two Genera of Coccixeli.idae captured in 

 coiTU. — Professor E. B. Poulton exhibited a specimen of 

 Adalia ohliterata, L., captured in cop. with Ilalyzia l8-guttata, 

 L., by Mr. Joseph Collins, of the Hope Department. The 

 specimens w^ere beaten out of a fir-tree at Tubney, Berkshire, 

 on August 5th, 1908. They remained paired after being 

 placed in the laurel bottle, and the specimens were seen to be 

 still united. 



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Diptera from Oxford and the New Forest. — Professor 

 E. B. PouLTOX exhibited the following Diptera, bred or 

 captured by Mr. A. H. Hamm, of the Hope Department. 

 Tlie observations recorded below were from Mr. Hamm's 

 notes. 



(1) Ten specimens of Eccoptomera tnicrops, Mg., bred from 

 pupae found on February 6th, 1909, in a single mole's nest, 

 on the Headington Wick Farm, near Oxford. They emerged 

 at intervals, the first on March 15th, and the last on April 

 12th, 1909. 



(2) Two specimens of Miltogramma germari, Mg., a species 

 new to the British list. They were taken with M. punctatitm, 



