ON ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. end 
without any difficulty that they can be taken in broad day- 
light; they do not successfully elude the collector, like a 
startled and swift-flying Rhopalocerous insect, so that in the 
ease of beetles, perhaps more so than in that of any order of 
insects, the number of those captured corresponds with the 
number seen. ‘There are three places where eastern Coleop- Three places 
tera may ordinarily be collected,—in flowers, under stones, and look for 
on refuse ; in other words, (1) when adhering tightly by their ah na 
forelegs to the middle of flowers, frequently that of the im fovers, 
variegated thistle or opium poppy, as noticed at Philadelphia, stones, and 
Sardis, and the neighbourhood of Athens; (2) under stones,as °°" 
on the slopes of Aceldama; (3) on refuse in the road, as at the 
villages of Junin and Kaukab in the vicinity of the Pharpar, 
and near the scene of St. Paul’s conversion, and elsewhere. 
The remainder of this paper is chiefly a reproduction, with 
a tew additicnal details, of the account I forwarded on this 
subject to the Hntomologist of February and of April, 1885. 
During my first visit to the Hast I captured 38 species of Which 
Coleoptera in Greece, 34 in Asia Minor, 21 in Syria, 18 in those?” 
Palestine, 15 in Turkey, 7 in Egypt. On my second expe- y2tegin 
dition I only captured 8 species of Coleoptera, 5 in Egypt and most pro- 
3 in Nubia, but should have brought home a greater variety Coleoptera. 
from Heypt if it had not been for the above-recorded depre- 
dations of a rat. ‘The difference in the number of species 
respectively noticed in the different countries may possibly be 
attributable, to some extent, to the time of year when the 
various localities were visited; and there are additiona] grounds 
for entertaining this hypothesis in the fact that the later the 
period the larger the number of species found. For example, 
7 in Egypt (in the month of March), 18 in Palestine (March— 
April), 21 in Syria (April), 34 in Asia Minor (May), and 38 in 
Greece (May-June). Only 13, it is true, were noticed in 
Turkey in the month of May, for the simple reason that a 
great part of my time was spent in visiting the public 
buildings, instead of im the open country. The genus wide range 
Oxythyrea had a wide range, occurring alike in Palestine, oars 
Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey, and Greece. ‘'wo species of 
this tribe were found in great abundance in cinctella and 
hirtella, and for the most part, as was also the case with many 
of the Cetonias, when tightly ensconced in the middle of a 
flower. I never saw any kind of beetle anywhere in such 
countless profusion as the showy orange and black-spotted 
Mylabris quadrimaculata, on the ears of ripe corn during my 
return drive from Deceleia, on the Ist of June, at the close 
of a bright and hot day. Some few good sorts were found 
beneath stones; seven specimens, for example, of the rare 
