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From the tombs of Egypt the housefly is pictured, not un- 

 plentifully. A gadfly is drawn chasing a cow. Grasshoppers 

 are often drawn, but in no instance as well as some from Chaldsea. 

 Of the butterflies, the two best are given in our cuts. The ear- 

 liest in the world is shown in Fig. lo. It dates from about 1,700 

 B. C. The whole picture is on a tomb near Thebes. It is a fine 

 relief carving. A nobleman is seated in a wicker chair, fishing in 

 the Nile. Above his head is flying a butterfly. The artist was 

 not familiar with the four-wingedness of his model. 



From the unwrapping of human mummies many insects have 

 come to light, some probably accidental introductions, a few 

 separately and carefully wrapped. Necrobia rufipes might have 

 been an accident. So probably was a specimen of Lucilia ccesar, 

 a cosmopolitan flesh fly. A Buprestid and a Cantharid beetle 

 were clearly intentionally preserved. 



The mosquito is neither pictured nor alluded to. It was left to 

 Herodotus to mention that creature in his Egyptian narrative, 

 although it is not differentiated from pestiferous biting insects 

 generally. He relates that they were so numerous near the 

 mouth of the Nile that the fisherman used nets to fish by day and 

 escape the mosquitos by night. 



NEW NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF NOTOXUS. 



By H. C. Fall, Pasadena, Cal. 



A recent survey of the material in my cabinet in this genus re- 

 vealed the presence of a number of new species, which are here- 

 with described. It is a notable fact that in two of the new forms 

 and also in montanus Csy. — which was described from a unique 

 female — the anterior tibiae are found to be toothed in the male, a 

 character hitherto known only in calcaratus. 



NoToxus Geoff. 



Notoxus nuperoides n. sp. Form and size of nuperus, with which also 

 it agrees precisely in elytral markings. Head and thorax rufotestaceous, 

 the latter broadly suffused with blackish on the disk, except for a narrow 

 median line ; elytra rufotestaceous, with the sides, apex and a post-median 



