1868.] 



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and Captain Taylor gave an interesting account of its habits, and of the immense 

 damage it was occasioning in India. The opinion of the meeting seemed to be that 

 the " borer " probably attacked only those trees that were in a sickly condition, 

 and that remedial measures should bo applied towards improving the general health 

 of the trees. That the trees were in a morbid condition was rendered extremely 

 probable, inasmuch as the three years immediately preceding the greatest amount 

 of borer-mischief were notorious for drought. 



Dr. Wallace, of Colchester, stated that he would be happy to forward eggs of 

 Bomhyx Yama-mai to any member wanting them, on receipt of three postage stamps. 



Mr. Smith read " Descriptions of Aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia." 



Mr. J. G. Desborough communicated Notes " On the duration of life in the 

 Honey-bee." 



Mr. Hcwitson sent a note on Tachyris Jacquinoti. 



Erratum in Vol. iv. — In Messrs. Douglas & Scott's paper on New British 

 Hemiptera at p. 271, dele the word ''Head" at the beginning of the description of 

 Corixa Scotti. 



LIST OF CAPTURES OF HEMIPTERA IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA; 

 TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OP SEVERAL NEW SPECIES. 



BY J. W. DOUGLAS AND JOHN SCOTT. 



Our mutual friend, tlie Eev, O. P. Cambridge, having visited 

 Palestine and Syria during tlie months of March, April, and May in 

 the year 1865, collected, besides insects of other orders, the following 

 species of Hemiptera, which he kindly placed in our hands for determi- 

 nation, and, where new, for description. With but very few exceptions, 

 only a single example of each species has been captured, and it is 

 extremely interesting to find that out of the whole number at least 

 one-fourth of them appear to be new. "We annex an entire list, and 

 afterwards proceed to describe the novelties. 



HEMIPTEBA-RETEEOPTEBA. 

 Section ScuTATiiy'A. 



1. Odontotarsus grammicus, L. Plains of Jordan, in April. 



2. Eurygaster maurus, L. Plains of Jordan, in April. 



3. GrapJiosoma Uneata, L. Sea of Galilee, in April. 



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4. Leprosoma Stall, n. s. On the road from Jerusalem to Nablous, 



in April. 



5. Sehirus duhius, Scop. Jerusalem, &c., under stones, March and 



April. 



