I have handed over my small collection of insects to Professor Poulton, F.R.S., of Oxford, who has had them set, and has kindly supplied me with materials for the following list, which may possibly be of some interest to any reader interested in Entomology.
Butterflies.
Three specimens of Limnas Chrysippus, a Danaine butterfly, found over all the warmer parts of the Old World. Of these three butterflies, one is the brown type form (Wad Hamed); one the Alcippus or Alcippoides variety, with white hind wings (Wad Hamed); one an Alcippoides, with much less white (near Kerreri).
Three specimens of Belenois mesentina. Two males (Zeidab and Wad Hamed) are typical. The female (near Pyramids of Meroe) is darker than usual. The specimen in the Hope Collection nearest to it comes from Somaliland.
One Teracolus. Very like T. auxo. The specimen is a male, small and white, with orange tip to the fore wing (near Pyramids of Meroe).
Three very small species of Lycænidæ. Two males and two females (two, Kerreri; two, Rojan Island).
Moths.
Noctuæ.—One Grammodes stolida (Battlefield of Omdurman), exactly like the Hope Specimens from India.
One dubious specimen, probably a species of Pandesema (on gunboat near Shabluka).
Bombycidæ.—One small female moth (Luxor), somewhat resembling Trichiura cratægi.
Tineina.—Three small pale specimens (two, on gunboats near Metemmeh; one, Wad Hamed).
Neuroptera.
Trichoptera.—A few species, very pale in colour (Luxor and Abu Ahmed).
Coleoptera.
One Cicindela. A very small and pale species, not represented in the Hope Collection (Wad Hamed).
One Buprestid, namely, Sternocera irregularis. A large brown species, with irregular tufts of straw-coloured hair on elytra and thorax (Um Teref).
One Longicorn. A large black shining Prionus, not represented in Hope Collection.
Heteromera. Two species, as yet uncompared with Hope Collection.
Two Lamellicorns, apparently melolontha, or very similar.
Hemiptera.
One immature form of a large species, pale in colour.
Homoptera.
Fulgoridæ. One small pale species.
Orthoptera.
Gryllidæ. Two pale species.
Acridiidæ. Two pale species.
Hymenoptera.
One winged ant—dark, with sand-coloured patches.
Arachnida—Araneina.
Six species of spiders. One of these is a beautiful mimic of an ant.
The above list is necessarily imperfect. It had to be compiled immediately for the publication of this volume, and there has been no time to properly "work out" many of the species. It is interesting to note the pale tint of so many of these Sudanese insects—a manifest adaptation to environment, for purposes of concealment amid the yellow sand of the desert.
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| ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, | 11 | |
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| GENERAL LITERATURE, | 18 | |
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| EDUCATIONAL BOOKS, | 36 | |
FEBRUARY 1899
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Gibbon. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By Edward Gibbon. A New Edition, Edited with Notes, Appendices,
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