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—— zillia and 7. is re three Cyprinodonts are 
nh among water-weeds i e Jordan both at its entry 
fata pin its exit from the lake eat also in the pools at Ain-et- 
Tineh. I did not see them in the lake itself. Together with 
them, in each locality, — of the little Atyid prawn 
Atyaéphyra desmarestii were take 
II. BATRACHIA AND REPTILES. 
The following notes are based on a few specimens taken 
incidentally and on a collection generously  eegaing to the 
Indian Museum by Herr R. Grossman of Tiberia 
(a2) AQuaTIC SPECIES. 
he list of aquatic or rather amphibious reptiles and 
batrachia that inhabit the shores of the Lake of Tiberias is a 
short one, and I Rave no species to add. It comprises only the 
following names 
Rana ees ridibunda, Pallas. 
lemmys caspica rivulata, Valenc. 
Emys orbicularis (Linn.). 
With one exception (that of the tree-frog), these forms 
occur in south-eastern Europe; while two of them have also a 
wide distribution in western and central Asia—Rana esculenta 
the g o 
through Persia, ‘ASichasiiagal and central Asia: that of the latter 
is even more extensive, including Kashmir and north-western 
India. Hyla arborea savignyi is common throughout Asia 
Minor and Syria and has also been found in Egypt ; “the species 
of which it is a race has, like Rana esculenta, a habitat only 
northern Palestine, being replaced in Persia by the typical 
form of the species. mys orbicularis is oe hee in southern 
ante does not occur in Egypt or in Asia south of Pale 
Of the two African amphibious reptiles (Crocodilus ‘niloti- 
cus, Laur., and Trionyx triunguis ,Forsk.) that occur in Palestine 
proper and i in Syria, neither has been reported to exist in the 
Lake of Tiberias, and I could obtain no evidence of their. 
occurrence, aidiodeh the mud-turtle has been found as far north 
