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ship’s lights : prominent among them was Deilephila livornica, Esp.; 
then there were two of the Lasiocampid, Trichiura obsoleta , Klug, 
a moth which occurs at Cairo; an Acidaliid, Graspedia consentanea , 
Walk., and several of the now familiar Crambid, Eromene ocellea. 
January 29th. At Amada (lat. 22° 45' 1ST.) I took my first 
specimen of that curiously “ watered,” or perhaps it should be 
“ damasked,” Blue, Amnus ubaldus , Cram., a female; also two of 
the Leaf-cutter, Megachile albocincta. From a diminutive native I 
acquired a relatively large Chamaeleon and took it on board. My 
preliminary observations confirmed the phenomenon that the side 
of the creature turned towards the sun darkened, but, before my 
observations were complete, an officious fellow-passenger liberated 
the animal during my temporary absence. 
The same evening near Kasr Xbrim (lat. 22° 35' FT.) Eromene 
ocellea , which I had found in plenty among the coarse grass at the 
landing-place, came in great numbers to light, but many more 
interesting things came also : Trichiura obsoleta; six Euxoa spinifera ; 
a female of the more familiar E. segetis, Schiff.; Agrotis ypsilon ; 
Ghloridea {lleliothis) peltigera; Plusia ni , Hiibn., was new to me; 
the little Noctuid, Eublemma brachygonia , Hmpsn., four specimens, 
also new to me, and the Phycid, Ancylodes pattens, Kag. The 
National Collection contains but three of the Eublemma from widely 
separated localities, and of the Ancylodes only Persian and Arabian 
examples. Lastly there was a Catocaline, Hypoglaucitis sp., which 
Sir George Hampson says is probably new to science [see Plate V., 
Fig. 5]. 
January 30th. At Abu Simbel (lat. 22° 18' N.) I was surprised 
to see no Danaida, though there was abundance of the Asclepiad 
plant, Galotropis procera, Willd., neither did I come across a Painted 
Lady; however, both Polyommatus baelicus and Gatochrysops eleusis 
were to be had, as well as both sexes of the common Xylocopa 
aestuans . The only Beetles taken at Abu Simbel were Pimelia 
spinulosa, Thriptera crinita , and Himatismus mllosus; the Bug 
Lygaeus miliaris, Fabr., was common about the Galotropis. The 
lights brought nothing save Euxoa spinifera and Eromene ocellea. 
Although the magnificent colossal statues of Bameses II., hewn 
out of the cliff, have to be freed at comparatively short intervals 
from the sand which comes down from above and accumulates about 
their feet, I was told by a gentleman who had climbed the cliffs 
that to his surprise he found no sand on the table-land above. 
This quite tallies with my own observations; in such deserts as I 
have seen, rock predominates over sand. A comparatively small 
