178 IN SECT A, ETC. 



INSECTA. 



COLEOPTERA. 



SCARAB^ID^. 



Ateuchus sacer, Linn. Found amongst the salted debris along the 

 Dead Sea shore. Named by Mr. Waterhouse. 



Bubas bubalus, Oliv. Abundant about Gaza, where I used to watch 

 it conveying the droppings of animals below the surface, and substituting 

 for them the soil excavated from their long vertical burrows. Common 

 throughout the Mediterranean region. 



Pachdema sinaitica, Crotch. ' P. pilosa, Walk., is probably identical 

 with this species, its greater size (seven lines) being the only point men- 

 tioned in the description in which it differs. Although both names were 

 published in the same year (1871), I have no hesitation in adopting the 

 name given to it by Crotch in preference to that of Walker, the descrip- 

 tions of the latter author being almost useless for the purpose of identifi- 

 cation, besides many of the species being referred to wrong genera, and 

 in some instances to wrong families.' Sinai only. 



Oryctes nasicornis, Linn. Amongst the Dead Sea drift, Ghor es 

 Safieh. Named by Mr. Waterhouse. A Mediterranean beetle. 



BUPRESTID^. 



Steraspis squamosa, Klug. Recorded by Walker from Mount Sinai, 

 Cairo, and Hor, Tamanib on the Red Sea shore of Africa. Found by me 

 in Wddy el 'Ain on acacia-trees. Named by Mr. Waterhouse. Found 

 in Syria and Egypt. 



Galbella Harti, O. Janson. n. sp. This was the only living thing I 

 found in the intensely salt marls about 600 feet above the Dead Sea in 

 Ghor. Where the marls were cut through by occasional small seils there 

 was other life, but this little beetle inhabited the most arid and driest 

 portions of the white chalky soil. Its nearest relative (G. beccari) is 



