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ern Palestine, flying in a swamp among Papyrus, near the waters 

 of Merom, forming the first basin of the River Jordan, by Rev. 

 D. D. Holland and Pickard Cambridge. 



3. Nemoptera Coa L. 



I have a pair from the Meteline Island, Winthem's collection. 

 The description by Rambur, p. 333, no. 2, and the fig. pi. 8, f. 3, 

 are excellent, and show the conferences between N. Coa and the 

 the other related species. The shorter, more rounded wings, the 

 larger marginal space and the pattern are the prominent charac- 

 ters. The description by Olivier, Encycl. method., vin, p. 178, no. 1, 

 means apparently this species. The figure, pi. 92, f. 4, is bad, 

 but belongs probably to N. Coa. It is not quoted by Olivier 

 (perhaps published after his death) nor by Rambur. Coquebert, 

 Illustr., pi. 3, represents the type of Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Sup- 

 plem., p. 208, no. 7. The figure is good and important. The 

 works of Fabricius contain some confusion concerning Panorpa 

 Coa. P. Coa, Syst. Entom., p. 314, no. 5, is a copy of Linn. 

 Syst., ed. xn ; he describes, p. 202, no. 7, as P. Coa from Bosc's 

 collection, the Linnean species figured by Coquebert, and p. 8, 

 P. halterata, from Barbaria, a new species from Bosc's collection, 

 mentioned later by King as N. barbara F. It is difficult to under- 

 stand how it had happened that he misunderstood Forskal's species 

 persistently. 



Brulle, Exped. sc. de Moree, in, Pt. 1, 275, N. Coa Linn., states 

 that the species is found in Greece on the islands as well as on the 

 continent ; very common in middle of May on the plains of 

 Morea, in Messenia later and disappears soon, but appears again 

 in June on the plains, never on the mountains. Coquebert adds 

 the locality Epirus, and Olivier Athens in June, and Negropont. 

 Mr. Blanchard Metamorph., etc., Ins., p. 602, gives a good figure 

 of N. Coa. 



Mr. Westwood has named the species N. Coquebertii, 1. c, 376, 

 no. 2. He quotes N. lusitanica Rambur, Faun. Andalus., pi. 9, f. 

 1, which I cannot compare, as referring to this species. 



4. Nemoptera bipennis Illio-er. 



Panorpa bipennis 111., Ahrens, Fauna Europ. fasc. i, f. 16, 1812. 

 Nematoptera bipennis Westw., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vni, 377, 



no. 3. 

 Nemopteryx lusitanica Leach, Zool. Hist., n, 74, pi. 85, 1815. 



