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purple Gladiolus sent up its graceful spires in the fields, and along 
the roadside trailed with great crimson bells the Convolvulus jalapa, 
and the smaller belled white Convolvulus with pale sulphur-colored 
rays. To see the Tulips (Tulipa gesneriana) breaking out of the 
hard dry soil of the very pathway, was a wonder, recalling the well- 
remembered description in Isaiah : ‘ The wilderness and the solitary 
place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and 
blossom as the rose.” No artist, not even Turner himself, could do 
justice to the glorious colors of the landscape—HENRY GILLMAN, 
U. S. Consul, Jerusalem, Palestine, February 10th, 1888. 
THE ENTOMOPHTHOREZ OF THE UNITED Srates.—These 
l. Empusa muscæ Cohn.—“ Diptera: Musca domestica, Lucilia 
cesar, Calliphora vomitoria, and other large flies; also 
Syrphide of several genera.” 
Empusa culicis A. Braun— Diptera: Imagines of Culex and 
numerous genera of minute flies or gnats.” 
3. Empusa grylli (Fresenius) Nowakowski.— (Hntomophthora 
aulicæ Reich. and Entomophthora calopteni Bessey.) “ Lepi- 
doptera: Larva of many genera of Avatians and of Orgyia 
nova. Orthoptera: Larvæ, pups, and imagines of many 
genera of Acidians. Imago of Ceuthophilus. (?) Diptera: 
Larvee and imagos of Tipulide, ete.” 
Empusa tenthredinis (Fresenius) Thaxter—‘ Hymenoptera : 
Larvæ of Tenthredinidæ.” 
6. — conglomerata (Gorokin) [?] Thaxter.— Diptera: 
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æ and imagines of Tipulæ. 
- Empusa apiculata Thaxter.—“ Lepidoptera: Larva of Hyphan- 
tria textor, imagines of Fortrix sp., Deltoid sp., Petrophora 
sp. (Geometrid), Diptera: Numerous genera of small flies 
or gnats. Hemiptera: Imago of a species of leaf-hopper 
(Typhlocyba).” 
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