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the other on pods, consisting of 14 and 34 individuals respectively; 
they were sitting close together, quite still, and appeared to be 
stupid. Mr. Morice was much interested in my account of this 
observation, which he is not able to account for, and cannot exactly 
match by any other recorded case among the Hymenoptera. I 
mentioned the matter to Mr. F. C. Willcocks, F.E.S., of Cairo, but 
he said that he had never noticed anything of the kind, though he 
interests himself in insects of all orders. Mr. Morice informs me 
that Stilbum infests the larvae of the larger species of Eumenes 
(especially dimidiatipennis) exactly as Ichneumons do those of 
Lepidoptera. 
On the island of Elephantine, in the hotel garden, I captured a 
specimen of Tarucus telicanus at Duranta flowers, where it was 
accompanied by the following Bees and Wasps:—a male Podalirius 
near to albigena, Lepel.; a male Ceratina tarsata, Moraw.; Elis 
senilis in abundance; a male Odynerus (?) hellatidus, Sauss., and 
three specimens, all males, of an Odynerus (Lionotus ) of the minutus 
group, which Mr. Morice thinks may be new; a male Philanthus 
coarctatus, Spin., and Eumenes tinctor. There were in addition 
several Stilbum splendidum , and the Flies, Eristalis taeniops and 
Syrphus aegyptius , Wied. (? scutellaris, Fabr.). The common 
Egyptian Sarcophagid, Agria nuba , sunned itself on the leaves of 
Ganna. It was in this garden also that I took a male Gegenes 
nostradamus , Fabr., the only Skipper that I saw in Egypt. 
In cultivated fields, about the flowers of lupins and beans, 
females of the big Xylocopa aestuans were not uncommon; grassy 
places harboured Chrotogonus lugubris, while Pimelia spinulosa , Klug, 
ran over the sand near high-water mark or lurked under the leaves 
of marrow. At the south end of the island I came across a large 
pot-hole in the granite, perhaps four feet across by three feet in 
depth; it was high above the water, and partly filled with sand on 
which were about 100 specimens of the Pimelia , a few still alive, 
but mostly dead, and many of them bleached from black to a rich 
brown. On the open sand I found a single Blaps gages , Fabr., and 
two small, dead Dung-beetles, Catharsius sesostris, Waterh. (pylades , 
Pering.), a creature that ranges over to Sierra Leone in one direction, 
and down to South Africa in another. 
Mrs. Longstaff found three moths in the hotel:— Eromene ocellea ; 
a Nolid, which Sir George Hampson thinks is new; and a dead 
Euxoa spinifera . 
On the left (western) bank there is but the narrowest strip of 
cultivation, a very few yards wide, squeezed in between the river 
