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be found in large numbers under the leaves of Vegetable-marrow. 
The walls of the beautiful temple of Hathor were literally plastered 
with nests of the Mason-bee, Chalicodoma sicula, Eossi; all that I 
captured were females. The Noctuid, Spodoptera mauritia, Boisd., 
came to light at this place. 
January 11th to 14th. Luxor, lat. 25° 38' N. Here Vespa 
orient alis, Linn., put in its first appearance: Miss Wurtz caught 
one on board, the only male that I came across, but specimens of 
the other sex were met with in the Ramesseum and in the Temple 
of Amen, where Myrmecocystus viaticus and Monomorium subopacum , 
Smith, were also to be found. Stilbum splendidum, var. ame- 
ihystinum was taken at Tamarisk flowers near the Ramesseum, and 
upon the same plant I found two of the handsome green Buprestid, 
Steraspis speciosa , Klug. Stone turning brought to light Mesostena 
laevicollis. At Medinet Habu Chalicodoma sicula was common, but 
not in such large numbers as at Dendera. A female of Eumenes 
tinctor , Chrst., was taken in the hotel garden; I had knocked one 
down with my hat on the deck of the steamer the day before, when 
about a dozen miles north of Luxor. In the garden I took also a 
solitary female of Tarucus telicanus, Lang, a butterfly that I had 
previously met with both in South Africa and in India. After dark 
a specimen of Caradrina (Laphygma) exigua, Hiibn., came to light, 
the larva of this moth (a rarity in England) does much damage to 
the young cotton plants and to barsim (White clover). 
January 15th. The well-known Red Locust, Schistocerca 
peregrina, Oliv., was captured in the Temple of Horus at Edfu, 
and on the same day the Fly, Agria nuba , Wied., came on to the 
steamer. 
January 16th. At Kom Ombo (lat. 24° 30' N.) several Danaida 
chrysippus were seen, all typical but very dark; a male is noted to 
have had the day after capture (dead) a very strong musk-rat, or 
mousy, odour. 
Aswan, lat. 24° 5' N. 
January 17th—27th. 
As a butterfly locality I expected more of Aswan (situated as it 
is just north of the Tropic of Cancer) than subsequent experience 
justified, but it is of course quite likely that more things might be 
found later in the year. The parts of the desert that I visited ap¬ 
peared to be quite devoid of vegetation—often there was not even a 
