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jarxina, whose spiilcry feet enable the bird to walk over leaves and 

 weeds floating pn the water. Other genera of crickets, Tridadylus, 

 for instance, live on the soft mud by the side of pools, and no doubt 

 often leap into the water by accident, which necessitates swimming 

 ashore, the insects thus acquiring habits slightly acjuatic in spite of 

 themselves. 



Orthoptera collected in South-eastern Europe. 



By MALCOLM BURR, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 Before commencing a detailed account of the Orthoptera that I 

 captured last summer in south-eastern Europe, an explanation of the 

 various localities cited appears necessary, as the names are chiefly 

 those of small villages or hills, and not given in an ordinary map, 

 Wolfsthal is a wooded hill in the immediate neighbourhood of Buda- 

 pest, and a very well-known locality. Adlerberg is another hill on the 

 outskirts of the same town, but rocky, and covered with short grass 

 and a few stunted shrubs. The species from Bucarest were taken in a 

 rough meadow round a pool on the outskirts of the town, where all the 

 poorer population flock to bathe. Comana is a wooded hill due south 

 of Bucarest, about half-an-hour by train on the Bucarest-Giurgevo 

 railway. Bufta is a very small village, with a wood, due north of 

 Bucarest. Orsova is exactly at that corner of the Danube, where the 

 frontiers of Roumania, Servia, and Hungary meet. The town itself is 

 in Hungary, but I am still uncertain whether the insects that I took 

 at Orsova are from Serbia or Hungary. Bosna Brod (brod="ford ") 

 is the junction for the Bosnian railway, a village on the south bank of 

 the Save, the corresponding village on the opposite side being 

 Slavisch Brod, which is in Slavonia. The species from Bosna Brod 

 were taken on the banks of the Save. Kosija Cuprija ("goat bridge") 

 is a small bridge over the Miljacka, half-an-hour's walk from 

 Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. The bridge crosses the river in one 

 arch, and was built about the year IGOO. Igman is a planina or 

 plateau, very thickly wooded, near to Ilidze, which is a fashionable 

 resort about eleven miles from Sarajevo. The elevation of Igman is 

 4,095 feet. Trebovic is a wild and rugged hill on the outskirts of 

 Sarajevo. The elevation is 1,740 metres. Lukavicais a fertile valley 

 near Sarajevo. Konjica is a small village on the border-line between 

 Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tisavica (" pretty") is a barren limestone 

 valley south of Konjica, and therefore in Herzegovina, at an elevation 

 of nearly 2,000 metres. Bicevica is a similar valley, not so high, 

 about forty miles south of Konjica. Ruiste is a gendarmerie station, 

 six or seven miles south of the last named locality. It is a barren 

 stony valley, thickly wooded with pines and beech on one side. Blagaj 

 is a village five miles from Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina. It is 

 situated in a ravine between stony mountains, and is the hottest place 

 I have ever been in. The vegetation consists almost entirely of thorn 

 bushes, of which pomegranates are the worst. It is here that the 

 river Buna rises out of a hole in the rock, 30 feet across at its source. 

 Blato ("lake") is a stagnant marshy lake on the west of Mostar. 

 Cetinje is the capital of Montenegro or Crnagora, situated in a basin 

 surrounded by mountains. The basin is apparently the bed of an old 

 lake, and the average altitude is 638 metres. Rjeka ("river") is a 

 village on the lake of Scutari, three hours' walk from Cetinje. 



