118 REV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S. 
and repeated experiences of Hastern travel, and his corre- 
spondingly great knowledge of the Oriental fauna, it will be 
noticed that some of the species—the large Satyridz, for 
Extract from 
Canon 
Tristram’s 
account of 
the butter- 
flies of 
Palestine 
in the 
Dictionary 
of the Bible. 
example,—that he captured in Syria are probably identical 
with those that I caught in the neighbourhood of Athens. 
So, too, in reference to G. Cleopatra; the kinds are the same 
as regards us both, but the particular Hastern locality 
different. Huis longer list of Rhopalocera of Syria and Pales- 
tine may also fairly be attributed to the fact that the Canon 
has paid more visits, visited more districts, and later on in 
the season, than I have had the good fortune to do, and 
similarly there are some species enumerated by him in the 
passage I have just quoted that I have never seen alive 
anywhere; P. Hupheno and Charaxes Jasius to wit, Colias 
Aurora also, and Thais Polyxena (supposing this last butter- 
fly to be distinct from what I know as T. Cerisyi), and 
Libythea Celtis also. 
To proceed to Canon Tristram’s account of the “ Natural 
History of Palestine,’ mm The Dictionary of the Bible, I must 
not fail to omit his mention of the genus Vanessa, the more 
especially as my own observation of that particular group has 
proved so scanty. In vol. i., page 691, we are told: “ The 
gorgeous genus Vanessa is very common in all suitable 
localities; the almost cosmopolitan Cynthia Cardui and 
Vanessa Atalanta, V. L. album and V. Antiopa may be 
mentioned.”? The V. L. album here recorded is the same as 
the V. Hgea, of which I saw one at Philadelphia, and accord- 
ing to the Canon’s account somewhere else, I think in a letter, 
V. Io is also plentiful in Palestine. I can fully endorse the 
reality and importance of his concluding observation in his 
article on “‘ Palestine,” when he says: “ If the many travel- 
lers who year by year visit the Holy Land would pay some 
attention to its zoology by bringing home collections, and by 
investigations in the country, we should soon hope to have a 
fair knowledge of the fauna of a land which, in this respect, 
has been so much neglected, and should doubtless gain much 
towards the elucidation of many passages of Holy Scripture.’ 
I have also witnessed for myself the following fact, that ‘‘ the 
Apollo butterfly of the Alps is recalled on Mount Olivet by 
the exquisite Parnassius Apollinus. This butterfly has been 
variously termed 
Thais ) Apollinus 
Parnassius - — or 
Doritis J Apollina. 
A synonymic list of the butterflies of the Holy Land would 
