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254 ENTOMOLOGICAL SPECIMENS Morus.

Noctua.—One Grammodes stoiida (Battlefield of Omdurman), exactly like the Hope Specimens from India.

One dubious specimen, probably a species of Pandesema (on gunboat near Shabluka).

Bombycide.—One small female moth (Luxor), somewhat resembling 77ichiura crategi.

Tineina.—Three small pale specimens (two, on 1 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 trregularis. 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.

Fulgoridz. One small pale species.

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