ON ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. 129 
interlaced; but I could not observe that any injury was 
inflicted, although the contest ended in the larger one trotting 
round the bottom of the bottle with the other in its mouth. 
The only other fact that it occurs to me to mention with 
regard to the ant tribe is, that I obtained a species of Mutilla, Genus 
or winged ant (thorax rust-coloured, body black, with pale ; 
yellow spots), from the banks of the Pharpar, on April, 1882, 
where it had settled, if I remember rightly, on a flower. 
I note that the Rev. J. G. Wood makes the following state- 
ment in Bible Animals: ‘In Palestine ants abound, and the 
species are tolerably numerous. Among them are found some 
species which do convey seeds into their subterranean home ; 
and if their stores should be wetted by the heavy rains which 
sometimes prevail in that country, bring them to the outer 
air, as soon as the weather clears up, and dry them in the 
sun.” Any one who wishes to test the truth of his words, 
can easily do so by watching the first ant’s nest which he 
finds, the species of the ant not being of much consequence. 
The same writer, however, proceeds to devote two pages 
and a half to the most wonderful ant in the world, Atta ee 
malefaciens, of Texas, and other parts of America, and adds: 
“The economical habits of this wonderful insect far surpass 
anything that Solomon has written of the ant.” 
One of the ants of Palestine, of which a representation is 
given on page 621 of Bible Animals, belongs to the same 
genus as this marvellous agricultural ant, and is named Atta Atta 
barbara. From its appearance in the engraving, I judge it" 
to be the same as the species I mentioned as having observed 
at Cairo and on the plain of Judeidah ; but have never seen it 
in Palestine myself. Of Diptera, I secured five species—two Diptera. 
from the neighbourhood of Athens (one, Dasypogon punctatus, 
on the hill of Colonos, on June 9; and the other, another kind 
of Dasypogon, from the Stadium, at the end of May); the 
third and fourth are, respectively, a species of Tabanus, or 
horse-fly, from the plain of the Litany, in April, and Laphria 
atra, Hphesus, in May; the fifth, likewise from Ephesus, is as 
yet unnamed. 
Of Hemiptera I collected eight species, of which the five that Hemirters. 
I succeeded in naming, and two of the unnamed also, are all 
red, or reddish, with black patterns on their wing-cases :—1. 
Lygeeus militaris, widely distributed, as collected at Aceldama 
and the Valley of Jehoshaphat, Mount Pagus, the Pnyx, the 
Acropolis, and Deceleia. 2. Strachia picta, from the Stadium, 
and Throne of Xerxes. 3. Pyrrhocoris Aigyptius, from 
flowers close to Sardis railway-station, and also from Mount 
Pagus. 4. Odontoscelis fuliginosis, also from Sardis, 5. A 
