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found in Sjria. I believe I have specimens of this species from Miss Fitzjohn's 

 Institution at Jerusalem that have the elytra more or less curtailed, but which I am 

 unable to distinguish from another received from the same, thought by Mr. Kirby 

 to be an Ischnoptera. The Jerusalem cockroach is blacker in colour than the 

 English. 



HeterogamiA STRIACA, Sauss. — I found this beneath ass-dung at Jerusalem 

 on May 23rd, and I previously met with it running over the sand-hills at Jaffa. 



PoLYPHAGA ^GXPTIACA, L., $ . — On July 23rd, in the Sook or covered market 

 alley at Jerusalem. 



MANTODEA. 



EmpusA EGENA, Charp. — Two specimens appeared on the bushes in the garden 

 at Jerusalem on June 9th. 



Ameles heldreichi, Brunn. — I noticed this small raptorial insect, which 

 seems to be abundant in the Holy Land, running over the rocky ridges covered with 

 dry grass to the left of the Jaffa road on leaving Jerusalem. 



FiscnERiA B-ETiCA, Eauib. — On bushes. Immature form, July 10th; perfect, 

 August 18th. 



FisciiERiA, species ?. — July 20th ; resembles in colour the dry grass on which 

 it was crawling. 



ACEIDIODEA. 



Pyrgomorpha grylloides, Latr. — On the Jaffa sand-hills in April, ferru- 

 gineous or pink in colour. I found a small male, perhaps of this species, with 

 colourless wings near Jerusalem on June 9th. 



OCHRILIDIA PRUINOSA, Brunn. — Found in the adult state at Jerusalem by Dr. 

 Festa, March 17th, and again on the eastern bank of the Dead Sea. 



OcHRiLiDiA TIBIALIS, Brunn. — Dr. Festa found this species at Jerusalem on 

 March 17lh, and he again met with it at Es-Salt. 



DuRONiA Savignii, Krauss. — Found by Dr. Festa at Jerusalem and Es-Salt. 



Stauronottjs maroccanus, Thunb. — The plague of Cyprus. Dr. Festa 

 noticed a great quantity of the larvse of this species at Jericho in 1>93. On June 

 11th, 1898, a swarm arrived at Jerusalem, coming from Es-Salt, and covered the 

 gi'ound, when the birds darting about here and there in pursuit presented a spectacle 

 that was watched with some interest by the inhabitants. They departed in the 

 direction of Colonia. 



Stauronottis Genei, Ocks. — Immature, July 18th ; mature, July 10th to 

 August 25th. Abundant round Jerusalem, and apparently plentiful in the Holy 

 Land and Mediterranean District. 



Staueonotus Hanensteini, Brunn. — Jerusalem, June 12th. Distinguished 

 from the former small species by its black knee caps. It is found in Syria as well 

 as Palestine. 



Stethophyma TURCOMANtJM, Fiscli d. W. — Leaping in the tracks in the scrub 

 on the hills around Jerusalem, June 5th to 21st. 



AcROTYLUS iNSUBRicus, Scop., was noticed by Dr. Festa near Jerusalem on 

 March 17th. 



