128 REV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S. 
Gear api: the geographical distribution of the Hymenoptera above 
tion of Mentioned :— 
Hymenop- 
tera above 
mentioned. Eumenes ——Pharpar 
Eumenes Hottentotta, Cairo > Eastern species 
Eumenes Tinctor Minieh 
( Tomb of Maccabees, ey 
Vespa crabro ...... Philadelphia English species 
/ Meles \ 
| Cairo , / 
Heliopolis Eastern species 
Denderah \ 
Heliopolis 
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) 
Vespa orientalis ... 
Mediterranean littoral, found in Sicily 
halicodoma sicula < Denderah 3 
o and Algiers 
Lycopolis 
Cairo 
Chrysis nobilis..... Minieh Eastern species, probably 
Pass of 
Continental species, generally distri- 
Daphne 
Xylocopa violacea buted 
Mention of Eastern Hymenoptera is, of course, not complete 
without a reference to ants, and I have been specially asked 
to say something about the corn-storing ants of Palestine, 
that have generally been supposed to lay up provisions against 
the winter. Though, if this be a fact, it does not necessarily 
follow from Proverbs vi. 8, ‘‘ Provideth her meat in the summer, 
and gathereth her food in the harvest.’”? Nor yet from 
Proverbs xxx. 25: “The ants are a people not strong, yet 
they prepare their meat in the summer.” All that I know or 
Eastern) saw about ants in the Hast may be very briefly stated. There 
ore is a Jarge black kind, about the size of our black and red wood 
ant, that I noticed both in Egypt and Syria,—namely, in the 
public gardens at Cairo, in the desert of Jebel Ahmah behind 
the citadel at Cairo, and in the plain of Judeidah, and not far 
from the village of that name, during my drive from Damascus 
to the scene of St. Paui’s conversion. It carries its head and 
tail alike cocked up aloft, and runs backwards and forwards, 
bearing a fanciful resemblance to an open carriage which is 
hooded at the back, and with shafts turned up, when pushea 
hither and thither in the process of being washed. There is 
also,a much smaller species, likewise black, of which I cap- 
tured a couple of specimens, on my second visit to Cairo in 
December, 1883, near the tomb of the Khedive’s family on 
the edge of the desert. These two ants, when confined in a 
bottle, used to meet and push one another with their jaws 
