ORDINARY MEETING, Marcu 7, 1887. 
THomas Cuapiin, Esq., M.D., 1n THE CuHarrR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following Paper was then read by the Author :— 
ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. 
By the Rey. F. A. Water, D.D., F.L.S. 
HERE can be no doubt but what the naturalist labours Diffculties | 
under certain special disadvantages in collecting in the in the Fast.” 
East. For example, if he happen to be in Syria or Palestine, 
the chances are that he will be on horseback the greater part 
of the time, as the only means of travelling, owing to the heat 
and the stony hill-sides, and will on that account fail to 
capture many an insect. 
Again, the traveller in a distant land, or even in an un- 
familiar spot (for this remark must not be understood as only 
applying to the Hast), through ignorance of the particular 
plant affected by this or that caterpillar or perfect insect, or, 
at all events, where the plants in question grow, may waste 
his time in fruitless search, and may be more successful on 
the last day of his stay, if he finds the flowers he has been 
looking for, than during all the rest of the time put together. 
y the term “ Oriental Entomology” are to be understood Oriental | 
all species of insects found in the East, not only those peculiar, —what it” 
or nearly so, to that region, but such as occur also in many Wisrstooa 
other lands. This paper, naturally, only has reference to te signily. 
those parts of the Hast that the writer has personally visited, 
and where he has consequently observed and collected— 
namely, various places in Hgypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, 
Turkey, Greece, on the first occasion; and Egypt and Nubia 
on the second. 
