. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Insects. Fig. II. Fig. II shows two of the three butterflies from a wonderful drawing on a rock tomb at Benihassan. The whole picture is of a papyrus thicket. In the water is a sturgeon-like fish and a sea cow. In the grass are five bird's nests, with eggs and young. An ichneumon is shown hunting for eggs. Above are seven species of birds, alight, on the nest or in flight. While the butterflies are of the same species, they differ in body marking and shape of wing. Note especially that the artist was not an entomolo- gist. His butterflies have
. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Insects. Fig. II. Fig. II shows two of the three butterflies from a wonderful drawing on a rock tomb at Benihassan. The whole picture is of a papyrus thicket. In the water is a sturgeon-like fish and a sea cow. In the grass are five bird's nests, with eggs and young. An ichneumon is shown hunting for eggs. Above are seven species of birds, alight, on the nest or in flight. While the butterflies are of the same species, they differ in body marking and shape of wing. Note especially that the artist was not an entomolo- gist. His butterflies have caudal appendages. a number of the honey bee, which was plentifully kept in the Nile valley. There is one graphic picture of a Sphex preying on a spider. Wasps of the Vespa group, as well as Sphex, are very common, but they are conventionalized. Four of them are shown here, explained in the footnotes. In the paper, " The Earhest Insects in the World," there is an explanation of the origin of the wasps, and their power of inflicting death. There is a close re- lationship between Persia and Egypt, dating prior to 6,000 B. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brooklyn Entomological Society. Brooklyn, N. Y. : The Society
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