466 Rev. F. D. Morice's List of Chrysids 



even ignita, are also absent from my list. Many of these 

 vacancies would doubtless have been filled up if I had 

 remained in the country for another month. But to 

 collect Chrysids even for a month in any district without 

 encountering a single ignita is, I should think, a most 

 unusual experience. 



As to the names of the localities quoted, Jaffa, Jerusalem 

 and Jericho explain themselves, but each name covers a 

 radius of two or three miles round the actual town. Ain 

 Dilb is a pretty valley among the hills between Jerusalem 

 and Jaffa, not far from Kolonieh. Khan Hadrur (the 

 so-called " Inn of the Good Samaritan ") is halfway between 

 Jerusalem and Jericho. I collected there, only for half-an- 

 hour or so each time, on three out of the four short halts 

 made by the carriages which conveyed us from Jerusalem 

 to Jericho and back — on the fourth occasion the weather 

 made collecting impossible. The insects indicated as from 

 " Bethlehem " were taken during an excursion through that 

 place from Jerusalem to Marsaba, and their actual place of 

 capture may have been anywhere along the route. 



List. 



Cleptes syriacus, Buyss. Khan Hadrur, 26, iii, '09. 



Ellampus auratus, L., var. abdominalis, Buyss. Jericho, 

 11, iv, '99. 



Philoctetes deflexiis, Ab. Jericho, 11-15, iv, '99. 

 „ chobauti, Buyss. Jericho, 11, iv, '99. 



YioUiVYGk fervida, F. Jericho, 28, iii, '09. 



„ gloriosa, F., var. viridis, Guer. Jericho, 5, iv, '09. 

 „ „ var. pundatissima, Dhlb. Jericho, 



4-15, iv, '99; 13-26, iv, '09. 

 „ „ var. ignicollis, Dhlb. Jericho, 11, 



iv, '99. 



HEDYCHRlDlUM/emoraifwm, Dhlb., var. miricolor, VAR. NOV., 

 Jericho, 28, iii, '09. 



In this curious variety the abdomen is coloured much as 

 in typical H. roseum, i. e. it is scarcely metallic and more 

 resembles pink coral. The head and thorax are coloured 

 as in normal femoratum, but their surfaces (above) slightly 

 more shining, the puncturation being more irregular and 

 not quite so close. 



