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Pachytylus migratokius, L. — The migratory locust has the reputation of 

 coming to Jerusalem ; Dr. Festa saw it at Beyrout. 



CEdipoda GRATIosa, Serv. — This grasshopper, which I found immature on 

 June 9th, and which continued leaping among the scrub until September, has a 

 reddish earthy orange tint on the thorax, and at the base of the elytra that favours 

 its concealment on the red Adamic soil of Palestine. 



Cosmorrhyssa fasciata, Thunb. — I found this, immature, on June 9th, and 

 it was to be seen here and there, as on the road to Bethlehem, until the middle of 

 August ; perhaps it is a little later in its appearance than the former species. When 

 it flies it is rendered conspicuous by its canary-coloured wings, but when it alights 

 it loses all its glory and becomes virtually invisible, owing to the reddish tint of its 

 body and elytra. 



Ptrgodera cristata, Fisch. d. W. — I saw this singular grasshopper, with a 

 helmet-shaped thorax and pink under-wings, on June 17th, crawling on a corn stalk. 



Eremobia cisti, F.— Dr. Festa found numerous examples of either sex and 

 also the larva at Jerusalem, Jericho, Mar Saba, and Es-Salt. At the end of April 

 little parties of this grasshopper were leaping like frogs here and there among the 

 groves of orange and olives at Jaffa, and I captured examples at Jerusalem from 

 June 9th, when I found one immature, uutil August. I have one of a pale 

 ochreous colour. 



AcRiDiUM ^GYPTIUM, L. {tartaricum, Cyrill.). — Flies about the orange groves 

 of Jaffa, and among the orcliard trees at Jerusalem, settling on the dark foliage. 

 Two examples presented me by Miss Fitzjohn have a pinkish tinge, and another is 

 of unusual size. 



ScHisTOCERCA PEREGRINA, Oliv. — This I saw settle like a shadow at the end 

 of April, in company with Truxalis unguiculata, on the Jaffa sand-hills ; and I 

 again noticed it in the cornfields on the slope of Olivat on May 8th. 



Caloptenus italicus, L. — All I found around Jerusalem, July 10th, nine have 

 their hinder tibise yellow, and not red like those I have taken in Europe, and their 

 thorax has often an earthy orange tint favouring their concealment on the soil of 

 Palestine. 



Thisoicetrus, species?.— Jaffa, and one immature from Jerusalem, May I7th, 

 mixed up with the above. 



Leptoternis gracilis, Eversm. — Plentiful on dry, sun-baked, grass plots, 

 north of Jerusalem, from the middle of June until September. The male, at least, 

 makes a burr when it opens its wings to leap ; probably, as in Psophns stridulus, L., 

 by the friction of the costal wing-vein beneath the advancing elytron, but any file- 

 like serration is, in either case, hard to distinguish. 



PoRTHETis, species ?. — With the merest rudiments of wings, was crawling on 

 the cornstalks on Olivet on May Sth. P. Raulinii, Lucas, is found in Syria. 



LOCUSTODEA. 



Tylopsis liliipolia. Fab. — With the abbreviated elytra grey and spotted, or 

 green or straw colour, and spotless ; the former found July 10th, the latter June 

 16th and July 20th. 



