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of T. ephyia, King, I secured four males (two of them veritable 
dwarfs) and a female, missing several others—for an orange-tipped 
Teracolus flying swiftly over the sand in the glaring sunlight is more 
difficult to follow with the eye than might be supposed. I also took 
a single dwarf male of T. daira, Klug. To the west of the town 
I took the only T. chrysonome, Klug, $, that fell in my way. Lastly, 
I caught near the tennis-ground a female of T. protomedia, which 
seemed to me to have a faint scent like opium. At Burri I 
secured a specimen of the very beautiful Calopieris eulimine , 
Klug. 
I did not come across a single Satyrid or Skipper in the Sudan. 
There was but one Nymphaline—the ubiquitous Pyrameis cardui , 
which was met with in the largest numbers on an exposed piece of 
ground at the very point of junction of the two rivers, exactly where 
one would have expected to see it. A fresh brood made its appear¬ 
ance on February 7th; one of these, a male, had an unusual under¬ 
side, very grey in tone, with but little dark shading, and without any 
black in the ocelli. Even slight variations are rare in this remarkably 
constant species. 
Blues were fairly numerous though of few species; Polyommatus 
baeticus and Tarucus theophrastus were both abundant, the first 
especially in bean fields, the second about Acacia bushes, or at 
flowers of Aerva (?) javanica, Juss., a plant belonging to the Natural 
Order Amarantaceae. I fancied that a male of the former butterfly 
had a slight scent like Meadow-sweet, while one of the latter had 
a moderately strong, sweet, luscious odour. Of Azanus ubaldus , I 
took half a dozen, having previously come across a female at Amada 
in Nubia. Of the little Ghilades trochilus (a species also met with 
at Aswan), I took only one. Zizera lysimon, Hiibn., was com¬ 
monest on weeds in fields from which a crop had been removed, 
especially frequenting Aerva and a species of Amelia (Nat. Ord. 
Boragineae). On the other hand, Catochrysops eleusis was common 
about small, low-growing, white-prickled Acacia bushes on the edge 
of the desert. The Khartum males were markedly bluer, less violet, 
than the Aswan specimens. 
Moths were not very numerous, but many of those taken were 
interesting. The almost cosmopolitan Utetheisa pulchella, Linn., was 
fairly common on both sides of the town. The little Pyrale, Noctuelia 
floralis, Hiibn., which is like an “ improved ” Herbula cespitalis, 
Schiff., occurred at the flowers of Amelia, and the handsome Deilephila 
livornica was taken at about 11 a.m. one hot, sunny morning, hovering 
at the flowers of Bchium sp., both Hawk-moth and flower being 
