382 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
green in the herbage, and the flocks of black Goats come over ; 
the hills browsing on the sticks and straws. It was at Jerusalem 
that Tasso places the enchanted grove of Armida, from which 
streamed red sap, such as exudes from elm orivy. Mr. Wilson, 
the missionary, offered to ride with me to some such thicket 
when I mentioned I had walked to the supposed site of Kirjath- 
jearim and seen no trees; around Jerusalem the Arab women 
break them down for firewood. Above the town rise one or two 
date-palms that do not mature their fruit, as the site is too 
elevated, and the scattered foliage around is that of olive and 
mulberries. One day I trudged out to Bethlehem, and when 
passing by an enclosure I was startled by a dirl and a rattle that 
had a resemblance to the castanets. Afterwards, about the 9th 
of June, the small Cicadatra atra commenced to din incessantly 
on the tops of the purple globe thistles in the vineyards at 
Jerusalem ; it varied in colour from black to a reddish ochre 
spotted with black, and, asthe soil was a yellowish-red loam, the 
latter form would be protected from the pale-coloured Sparrows. 
Later on in the month the olives, hoary with red-berried mistle- 
toe, which, Canon Tristram told me, was not found nearer than 
the South of Spain, resounded to the croaking of Tettigia orni, 
whose notes rattled on until August. What is singular, one of 
my specimens of Cicadatra atra has an extra veinlet on the 
second ulnar area of the left wing that forms a triangular cell at 
its extremity. Mr. Distant has told me he has noticed similar 
instances in Cicadeé from all parts of the world, and I have since 
found a specimen of a gaudily coloured species (Platypleura octo- 
guttata) that has an additional cell in the angle of the third and 
fourth areas, outlined with brown, so as to form a conspicuous 
wing-spot. On my return from the Holy Land, when passing 
the west end of Cyprus, a brisk easterly wind that was blowing 
through the gaps in the hills precipitated cloudlets that stood 
out like marble statues on the rocky shore, and took the 
semblance of the Assyrian Venus drawn by Swans; it seems 
most probable that deities of old were fashioned in cloudland. 
The Tettigia orni is the Cicada of the pine that inspired the 
meditations of Lord Byron at Ravenna; the classical Plebeian 
Cicada is heard to strike its lyre in the Morea of Greece, and the 
Blood-red Cicada dwells among the vineyards. A French cousin 
