2(30 [October, 1901. 



reasons, viz., the weather dull, the locality so stony (I had previously only taken 

 Anthrax in sandy places), and I had no idea it occurred so far north. Twenty-five 

 specimens were taken, six males, the rest females, a large number considering the 

 time we were there, and doubtless had the day been favourable it would have been 

 common. Two days after I swept a single specimen from rushes at DyfPryn. I do 

 not know if Anthrax has been previously recorded from Xoi'th Wales. For many 

 years Anthracidce seemed to be declining in England, but the last two seasons they 

 have certainly made headway again, as they have been recorded in some numbers 

 from Devon, Cornwall, Bournemouth, New Forest, and the East Coast. Mr. C. J. 

 Wainwright, Mr. F. C. Adams and myself have probably taken lOQ specimens. — 

 Ealph C. Bradley, Moseley, Birmingham : September, 1901. 



Insects found around Jerusalem {Supplementary). — The following Hemlptera 

 occur at Jerusalem : — Reduvius pallipes, June — flies to the evening lamp ; on 

 seizure stridulates and pricks with its rostrum. Pentatoma virens, June and July 

 — possibly a variety has the head, thorax and elytra margined in front with lemon- 

 yellow. Lygcetis militaris — frequents the vine leaves ; it extends to Southern Europe, 

 Egypt and India. Pyrrhocoris apterus, July and August — for a hundred yards 

 in 1896 a pathway leading down to the Gorge of the Kedron was reddened as with 

 blood by these bugs ; they clustered together and hung on the thistles, evidently 

 coupling. Cimex lectnlarlns, no doubt. Cydmts nigritus and Sciocoris umbrinus, 

 June. 



In regard to Lepidoptera, Idmais Fausfa, like oar clouded yellow in England, 

 seems to have been plentiful at Jerusalem in 1900. Collantia (Ertzeni, Led., a 

 congener of jowrfjca, appears at Beirut and Jerusalem in October; and like that 

 moth, the male has a bladder on the thorax, in regard to which Dr. Chapman re- 

 marks, " It is curious these should be well developed in an Arctian and Lithosian 

 genus ; one must suppose they exist potentially throughout the Arctiadae." In 

 appearance it resembles Arctia Caja and fasciata,\)\xt Mr. Kirby, who has compared 

 Lederer's figure of the larva with Hofman's figures, says it is like that of Calli- 

 morpha domimda. Since Dr. Chapman notices the bladder present in both sexes of 

 Setina irrorella and aurita, this may indicate an ancestral form, with scions 

 fasciata, Caja, pudica, (Ertzeni, and domi.nula. Diloba coeruleocephala appears at 

 Jerusalem in November ; I remember seeing it at Cowes in the Isle of Wight 

 during September. Amphipi/ra Styx and Pseudophia tirrhaa occur at Jerusalem. 



As regards Diptera four gnats disturb the siesta at Jerusalem, where they 

 breed in the cisterns — the English Culex pipiens apparently, a Culex spotted 

 alike but black, one wholly pale brown, and the minute sand fly that descends 

 like a fleck of snow. 



I may add that the Rev. O. P. Cambridge has kindly identified a few Jerusalem 

 spiders : — a domestic Pholcus, only too like phalangioides, so very handy on the 

 ceiling in Dorset and Devon ; the white Argiope sericea, with an indented abdomen, 

 that sits on a geometrical web spun in Genista ; the English Thomisus onustus, grey 

 in colour, that hides on the grey Salvias ; and the fawn-coloured Sparassus angelo- 

 sius, frequenting houses, and probably introduced with firewood. 



A woodlouse-like creature, Hemilepistus, that carries bits of leaf in its mouth 

 to holes in the chalk, is common on Olivet. — A. H. Swinton, Vineyard, Totnes, 

 Devonshire : July, 1901. 



