AND LOWER EGYPT. 20X 



ticns ; the bey, the Viaschef, are not free frora 

 them. When they feel themselves bitten by any 

 of these insects, they seize it carefully, and put it, 

 without hurting it, on the same sofa where they 

 are sitting, from whence it is not long crawling 

 on some other person. Whatever precaution I 

 could take to avoid being tormented by them, I 

 was obliged to submit to it, and to endure the en- 

 venomed bitings of these insects, which are of an 

 uncommon size and voracity in Egypt. When my 

 companions were employed in clearing themselves 

 from them, they used jocularly to call their search 

 hunting a la Turque, 



A beautiful species of ichneumon fly *, with a 

 strong auger, and long at the extremity of the body, 

 likewise enters occasionally the houses in Upper 

 Egypt. It shines with the most lively colours ; its 

 head is of a beautiful emerald green ; the corselet 

 and the belly are of a glittering purple tint. 



f The drone-bee, which Citizen Olivier has styled 

 the bee with a yellow corselet -^-^ is commonly seen 

 here. It makes in flying a very loud buzzing. It 

 is yet to be found in Lower Egypt. 1 have seen it 



* Ichneumon. Lin. 



f Encydop. method, article Bee. v^/z/j cestunns. Lin. Jlpis 

 hirsuta, nigra, thorace flavo. Fabriciirs, Svst. Eutom. page 382, 

 and Spec. Insect, vol. i, p. 479. 



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