Preface. v 



Egypt, and to the late Herr A. Lanner, of the Swedish Nor- 

 wegian Consulate at Alexandria. 



The publication of these reports has been rendered possible 

 by a most liberal grant for the purpose from the Swedish Govern- 

 ment. A considerable additional sum I obtained through the 

 kind intervention of Dr. Claes Annerstedt, Chief Librarian of 

 the Uppsala University Library. 



The following papers will not contain a complete fauna of 

 the White Nile, nor even a full list of all our collections from 

 that region; they are, on the other hand, concerned with giving 

 a report of those new or interesting facts, whether from the 

 point of view* of Geography, Morphology or Systematics, which 

 we have been able to educe. Our type specimens are deposited, 

 the Vertebrates in. the Zoological Museum of the University of 

 Uppsala the Invertebrates in the Riksmuseum at Stockholm. 



Although the majority of our "results" derive from the 

 regions bordering the White Nile, some portions of these papers 

 will deal with Egypt proper, and others even with the marine 

 fauna as found at Tor. 



Owing to the materials collected having been entrusted to 

 a number of scientists to prepare for publication, it has proved 

 impossible to have all the sections of the work written in the 

 same language. The three languages, however, English, German 

 and French, will besides Latin be the only ones employed. 



Each section will stand by itself as a unit, with separate 

 paging. At the close of the work, however, I hope to be able 

 to give a Zoological bibliography of the region and a fuller 

 introduction. 



L. A. Jagerskiold. 



