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XIII. A list of Chrysids taken ly the writer in t%oo visits 

 to Jaffa, Jeriisalem and Jericho, with descriptions of 

 new species. By the Rev. F. D. MoRiCE, M.A., F.E.S. 



[Read October 6th, 1909.] 



The Chrysids enumerated below were taken (with one 

 exception) by myself while visiting Palestine with Professor 

 Dr. Schmiedeknecht in April 1899 and again, exactly ten 

 years later, in March-April 1909. As many of the species 

 are considered rarities I have thought that a list with 

 precise dates and localities of capture may be of some use 

 to future collectors or students of Hymenoptera from that 

 district. It is possible that the list may not be quite 

 complete, as I have given away a certain number of 

 specimens as duplicates and am not sure that I have 

 always kept record of these. But as far as it goes I 

 believe it to be correct ; and at least one specimen of 

 each species has been determined or verified for me by 

 the Vicomte R. du Buysson, so that the names here given 

 may safely be trusted. 



Our first visit to Palestine lasted only a fortnight 

 (April 6-20, 1899), of which a week was spent at Jericho. 

 In 1909 we were in Palestine for a full month (March 22 

 to April 20) and devoted three entire weeks (March 26 to 

 April 16) to Jericho. But on this occasion the conditions 

 of weather, etc., were far less favourable for collecting 

 Chrysids than on our previous visit, so that the four weeks 

 of 1909 produced not very many more species and probably 

 fewer individual specimens than the fortnight of 1899. 

 In all I seem to have found 28 species or named varieties, 

 13 of which occurred in 1899 only, 19 in 1909 only, and 

 the remainder (15) in both years. 



Naturally a large proportion of these Palestine Chrysids 

 occur also in Egypt, but it is rather curious that among 

 them is no representative of the genera Hedychrum 

 Chrysogona and Stilhnm — all which occur (and the last 

 at least abundantly) in the Delta. Nor do my captures 

 include any Notozus ; and several of our commonest 

 European species of Chrysis, such as succincta, cyanea and 



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