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one the unattractive Lamoria imbella , Walk., four specimens, this 
is a widely distributed African species, ranging from Natal to the 
Nyanza; the other Arenipses sabella, Hmpsn., a species found in 
Arabia and on the Persian Gulf, of which I also got four. Other 
Pyrales were the almost cosmopolitan Hellula hydralis , Guen., one; 
Noctuelia jloralis, two ; Polyocha anerastiodes , Warr. & Rothsch., one; 
the ubiquitous Nomophila noctuelia , three; Noorda blitealis, Walk., 
a species that ranges from Ceylon over India to Aden was in abun¬ 
dance ; Eromene ocellea , two, small and pale when compared with the 
large numbers seen in Egypt; and Etiella sp. nov., still in Sir George 
Hampson’s hands. Also a Tortrix which Lord Walsingham says is 
the cosmopolitan Bactra lanceolana, Hiibn. 
For the determinations of the Hymenoptera brought home I am 
greatly indebted to my old friend the Rev. F. D. Morice (now President 
of the Entomological Society of London), who spent much time over 
them. 
Ants did not make themselves very obvious. On the battlefield 
of Kerreri, during an extremely hurried visit, I managed to secure a 
worker of Camponotus sericeus, Fabr. In the hotel at Khartum my 
first capture was a worker of G ’. sylvaticus, Oliv., var. maculatus, Fabr. 
In the Zoological Gardens close by I took on the trunk of a Parkinsonia 
three worker ants of which Mr. Morice writes : “ This Camponotus is 
unknown to me, unless it be a form of pubescens , Fabr.; the pilosity 
is very curious.” I did not meet with either of these three ants in 
Egypt. In the western suburbs, toward Mogran, I found a worker 
of Myrmecocystics viaticus running rapidly over the ground; in the 
same neighbourhood, under a stone, I found an ant which, with the 
general appearance of a Formicid, has a long and powerful sting; 
Professor C. Emery has been good enough to name it for me as 
Euponera ( Brachyponera ) sennaarensis, Mayr, a well-known Ethiopian 
form, but unlike the other ants named not extending into the 
Palaearctic Region. 
Another ant, Prenolepis longicornis, Latr., hunted on the luncheon 
table; while Aphaenogaster barbara, Linn., was common in the garden; 
a male of the red and black Mutillid, Apterogyna savignyi, Klug, was 
also taken in the hotel. 
Of the difficult genus Myzine I met with three species on the 
Mogran hunting ground. The commonest appears to be fasciculata , 
which the late Mr. Ed. Saunders described from Biskra; of this I 
took seven specimens, all males ; of rousselii, Guer. (also a Biskra 
insect), I took four males; lastly, there were two males which Mr. 
Morice thinks may be either aegyptiaca, Guer., or guer ini, Lucas 
