122 REV, F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S. 
Nebria hemprichii at Aceldama, on April 3, and Chleenius 
spoliatus, C. vestitus, Anchomenus austriacus, and such-like 
metallic Coleoptera, on the wet ground in the vicinity of the 
great Bend, or reservoir, of Sultan Selim, that had recently 
overflowed its boundary, on the 25th of May, at Belgrade. 
Anthia sex-maculata (variegated black and white) is the 
handsomest, decidedly so, of the very few species I saw 
in all Egypt, and was taken running about the sand- 
heaps that are silted up by the action of the desert winds 
around the clumps of tamarisk, at Hl Ferdane and else- 
where in the neighbourhood of the Suez Canal. Ateuchus 
sacer was found also in the desert, and at the Pyramids 
of Geezeh, but far more plentifully on the road to Laurium 
and Marathon, two months anda half later. Of the eight 
species of Coleoptera that I came across on my second 
visit to Cairo, and in my voyage up the Nile, one kind only 
was plentiful(Steraspis squamosa, one of the green metallic 
Buprestidee), and of this bright-coloured beetle there were any 
amount, as it swarms on the tamarisks (January—March) at 
Erment, the ancient Hermopolis, a short distance up the river. 
south of Luxor, and at that latter place a large number had 
been stored since the preceding season, in a terra-cotta gourd, 
for sale to tourists in December. 
Respecting Orthoptera, there is comparatively little to 
relate ; the identity of the species I came across in the Hast 
with those in other parts of the Mediterranean littoral will be 
best ascertained by reference to the following table :— 
Acridium Tataricum. 
1872. 1882. 
Lido. Beyrout. 
Ajaccio. Alexandretta. 
Solfatara. Road to Marathon. 
Mantis religiosa, 
1872. 1882, 
Ajaccio (November). Beyrout (April). 
(Hdipoda germanica (red variety). 
1872, 1882. 
Switzerland. Alexandretta. 
Italy. Pharpar. 
Corsica. Belgrade. 
Road leading to Marathon, 
Tryxalis nasuta. 
1872. 1882, 
Bellagio. Jaffa. 
Lido. 
Florence. 
Ajaccio. 
