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Common and appaicnlly generally distributed. 

 Males fly quite freely when disturbed. 



Gigliio-Tos recorded also .1. spaìlaiì:ania Rossi 

 from Dzherash, but he has seen a larva only and 

 the record seems extremely doubtful. 



9. Iris oratoria (L.). 



Jerusalem, 'jJ\ Sept., .ifi Nov. 

 Quite uncommon in Palestine. 

 The Palestinian sjiecimens are very similar in 

 their coloration and dimensions lo those from Greece. 



10. Rivetina (*) baetica (Ramib.). 



Haifa, Tulkeram, Kakon, Beisan, Wadi-Kelt, 

 May-July; Amman, Transjordania, 21 - ao July. 



Common in all the lovver i)arts of the country, 

 both in the Coastal Zone and the Jordan valley, but 

 apparently absent from the hills. The occurence of 

 this species at Amman, Transjordania, is remarkable 

 for the altitude (2r)oo ft.) is approximately that of the 

 Judacan highlands, where the species has not bccii 

 found. 



It seems that that the Palestine material on this 

 spe(;ies may be split up into several local forms. Thus, 

 a long series of specimens from Tulkeram belong to 

 a slender form with long and strongly spined prono- 

 tum, and very long supra-anal plate in both sexes 



(*) A new generic name for tlie praeoccupied Fischcria, 

 })r()posed by Berland and Chopard (Bull. Mus. Piris, 1922, 

 p. 107). 



