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muddy banks of the river. (Tnjllodes lateralis, Pieb., I did not find 

 this time, but (jri/llns huriliiialensis and <t. sp. ?, were common in 

 the garden, with Xeinnbiux soHssiirei, Burr, flying to light in consider- 

 able number.^. 



Alexander Borisovich has an arc lamp on his balcony, with a sheet 

 fastened to the wall, and stretched across to a table, and here on a still 

 dark evening, collecting is done en masse; a dozen cyanide bottles are 

 rapidly filled ; in a few minutes the sagging part of the tablecloth is a 

 crawling mass of (Jori.ca, which is periodically emptied and cleared up, 

 and they are thrown away by the quart. Hawk moths come dashing 

 around; the commonest in July and September is T/icn'tra alccto, Jlijlrx 

 eiipJinrhiae and Snicrinihiis ocellatns are fairly common. Crowds of 

 water beetles arrive, with ant-lions, Kpacmtnia t/talaxsina, the cricket 

 mentioned above, GnjUotaljia, (Ecanthns pellncena, Scop., and (). turn- 

 niriis, Uvaroti'; earwigs come too, Labia )iiinor and Lahidtn-a riparia 

 are the commonest, but great rarities occasionally turn up, aj., Forii- 

 cula iioiieiantsi'ri, Sem., of which the male is still unknown ; four or 

 five females have been thus taken in as many years, and also a still 

 undescribed species. The substantial number of Illii/)icluitc( which I 

 took were reserved for Oshanin, but I brought back a few Coleoptera. 

 A. P. Semenofi"-Tian-Shansky has named a few for me; there are 

 ^^gosoma scahricorne, a fine Cerambycid, I {i/drflphiliift profanifiu/Ks, 

 Sem., or also IJ . flavii'cs, Scop., Arrhajihi/ptrrKs shdkoniikori, Reitter, 

 the interesting Buprestid, laboddla dilati colli k, Sem., and the eastern 

 Longicorn, Apatoidnjes, caspica, Sem., all taken at light. In the garden 

 Civiiidda aublacerata swarmed on the footpaths. 



The creatures which obtruded themselves most upon one's notice 

 were the irrepressible Cicadas. The big brown one which makes the 

 desert noisy when no other creature can bear the heat has already been 

 mentioned. In the garden there is a smaller brown species, equally 

 insistant, and a small green one, probably Hustovelia biirriana, Horvath. 

 Dr. Horvath erected this genus and described the species on a single 

 stray specimen picked up by me in September, 1912 ; in July it swarms 

 in the garden and park. Dr. Horvath wished to pay a delicate compli- 

 ment to the Georgians in naming this elegant species after their poet, 

 Rustoveli ; it is a pity that this is not quite appropriate, as Geok Tapa 

 is far out of the Georgian region of the Caucasus ; it is a pure Tartar 

 district. 



July 19th found me for a couple of days at Kislovodsk, after a very 

 hot but interesting journey of thirty odd hours from Baku, where I 

 had been baked for two days without being able to do any collecting, past 

 Derbend, with its line old wall and Persian fortress. As the train ap- 

 proaches the junction of Mineralnya V'ody, we were afforded a magnifi- 

 cent view of the snowy jagged range of the main Caucasus, standing out 

 in relief in the clear morning air, with half a dozen peaks higher than 

 Mt. Blanc, and, towering head and shoulders above his neighbours, 

 the massive twin-headed peak of Elbruz himself, rearing up almost to 

 19,000 feet, in solitary majesty; the cloudless sky sbowed up the 

 characteristic gentle concavity of the flanks as seen in profile. 



Kislovodsk is the chief of a group of fashionabbi watering places ; 

 its neighbours are Piatigorsk, with its memories of Lermontoff, and 

 Essentuki, whose bottled waters are familiar to ail travellers in Russia, 

 Kislovodsk itself is a very pleasant spa, with good music, theatres, and 



