18 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [January, 1913. 
investigation was made of the springs in the plain of Gennesa- 
ret. A few specimens were collected later in the R. Barada 
at Damascus and in the Dog River (Nahr-el-Kelb) near Beirut 
on my way to the coast, but only one day was devoted to col- 
lecting in each locality. A few blood-sucking and “ house ” flies 
were also obtained at Nazareth and at Kefr Kenna, half way 
between Nazareth and Tiberias, but no attempt was otherwise 
made to collect purely terrestrial animals. 
e Lake of Tiberias (also known as the Sea of Galilee) is 
termed in modern Arabic Bahr Tubariya.' It is a pear-shaped 
mass of water through which the Jordan flows from north to 
south, its length being about 13 miles and its greatest breadth 
about 43 miles. Tiberias, the only town that now exists on its 
shores, is situated on the west side a little south of the broadest 
_ On maps of the lake numerous streams are depicted enter- 
ing it. Most of these streams are, however, in summer either 
dry ravines or else merely the outflow of Springs that rise at a 
consist of more or less saline water and some of them are 
warm. Near Tiberias there are, on the margin of the lake, hot 
; In this and other place-names I follow the spelling of Bartholo- 
mew s most recent map of Palestine. 
> Recent surveys have not confirmed Lortet’s statement that there 
are pockets of over 250 metres deep in the neighbourhood of the mouth 
at which various species 
of molluscs occur are contradicted by my own intesiigationan See 
Lortet, Arch. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Lyon III, pp. 104, 108 
