22 ~=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (January, 1913. 
could find no representative of the group in this position, 
although at least two species were common in small streams on 
and near the shore. 
wo species of Polyzoa Phylactolaemata and five of fresh- 
water sponges were obtained. The only coelenterate I saw was 
a single specimen of the common Green Hydra (H. viridis, 
Linn.), which I found among weeds in a little limestone basin at 
Ain-et-Tineh. 
Several distinguished naturalists, among whom the names 
of Giinther, Tristram, Lortet and Locard are prominent, have 
devoted their attention to the fish! and molluscs of the Lake 
of Tiberias, and although the less conspicuous groups have 
not been so strictly investigated, the collections of Dr. Th. 
Barrois and Dr. E. Festa have provided material for two valu- 
1 Dr. E. W. G. Masterman of Jerusalem has published a very 
interesting account of the inland fisheries of Galilee including those of 
the lake, in his Studies in Galilee (Chicago: 1909). ” 
2 Only a comparatively small number of Dr. Festa’s specimens were 
actually from the Lake of Tiberias. 
