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Calotropis : it appears a very bright red on the wing. Mr. Distant 
tells me that it is a common species. 
A servant at the hotel brought me a large Mantid in spirit, 
Hierodula bioculata, Burm., she said that it had come to light at the 
beginning of February. Of the common North African Locust, Acri- 
dium aegyptiacum , Linn., I took one. A specimen of the Locustid 
Phaneroptcra minima. Brunn., came to light. Numbers of large 
Earwigs, Labidura riparia, were found under a stone near the junction 
of the two rivers at Mogran ; I had met with the same species near 
the Great Pyramid. 
It is to be feared that but little attention was paid to Flies, and 
those that I brought home were not remarkable. Of Agria nuba , a pair 
were captured. Among Calotropis, on the desert near the rifle ranges, 
I took two males and a female of Dacus longistylus, Wied., a wasp-like 
fly which Becker, in his work on Egyptian Diptera, attaches to the 
same plant. The brilliantly coloured Blue-bottle, Pycnosoma margi¬ 
nal, Weid., was also common on Calotropis, but I suspected that a 
dead camel close by was even more attractive to it. A solitary 
Anthrax has not yet been provided with a name. Two specimens of 
Rhinia ( Idia ) acnca, Walk., complete a somewhat commonplace list. 
Quite the most obvious Khartum Beetle was the dark brown and 
gold Cetoniid, Pachnoda savignyi, Gory & P., which was very com¬ 
monly to be seen flying around, or settled upon the flowers of Acacia or 
Tecoma. When settled on a flower it was easily alarmed, and readily 
took to its wings. Many specimens in the British Museum have the 
brown replaced by yellow, but I saw none so coloured. At Burri I 
took flying about Acacia flowers two of the large green Steraspis 
speciosa, a species common in Upper Egypt, also at the same flowers a 
very finely coloured example of the magnificent Julodis fimbriata, 
Klug—blue, green, yellow, and orange-red. [Plate V., Fig. 8.] The 
electric lights of the hotel attracted the small Chafers, Adoretus 
clypeatus, Burm., and Schizonycha sp., as well as two specimens of the 
small Dung-beetle, Catharsius sesostris. Amongst the odds and ends 
attracted by the light was an Opatrum, as usual obscure and name¬ 
less. Of Himatismus villosus I found one on the Cathedral site, while 
three others came to light. Debris under bushes of Calotropis gave 
shelter to a Sceliodes castaneus, and a number of the abundant 
Ocnera hispida ; of the latter Mrs. Duckett took one in the hotel. 
Zophosis plana, Fabr., crawled upon the sand near the rifle ranges. 
Other beetles met with were Coccinella 11-punctata, and five specimens 
of Bulaea lichatschovii, Hummel, var. pallida, Muls. 
Unfortunately, when we reached Khartum the dry season was so 
