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Pachytrachelus, species ?. — Appeared one day, July 3rd, at the bottom of an 

 excavation made by the Palestine Exploration Fund, near the Pool of Siloara. 



GRYLLODEA. 



Grtlltjs algeeicus, Sauss., was found by Dr. Festa at Jerusalem on March 

 17th, and again noticed by him at Es-Salt, and on the eastern bank of the Jordan. 



In the determination of the foregoing species I have had the kind assistance of 

 Messrs. Kirby and Malcolm Burr, and Signor Giglio-Tos, to whom I make my 

 acknowledgments. 



In the Valley of the Jordan and around the Dead Sea, or it may 

 be on the maritime plain of Sharon, where the temperature is greater 

 or the vegetation more rank, certain species of Orthoptera that are 

 rare, or never seen, at Jerusalem may probably be found. Near 

 Jericho Dr. Festa met with Heterogamia livida, Brunn., Eremiaphila 

 Qenei, Lefeb., and Empusa pcnnicornis, Pallas, Truxalis unguiculata, 

 Tlamb., StenobotJirus higuttulus, Jjin. , Sphingonotus Jlittari/i, Sa\iss.,Sind 

 Gosmorrhyssa sulcata, Stal, Isophya Festce, Giglio-Tos, and Oryllotalpa 

 vulgaris, Latr., which, like the Stcnohothrus above mentioned, indicates 

 the presence of springs and moisture not frequent on high ground. 



Redbridge, Southampton : 

 1898. 



Pyrameis cardui on December SO/A and January 2?j(^.— Near the mouth of the 

 Eiver Axe on December 30th, in the afternoon, I saw a much-worn P. cardui dis- 

 porting itself along the sunny side of a wall, and thi'ee others on the cliffs at Seaton 

 on January 2nd. — A. E. Eaton, Seaton, Devon : January, 1899. 



[This is probably an unprecedented record. They can scarcely have been other 

 than individuals aroused from hibernation by the prevailing warm weather, and they 

 teach us how little we know about thi- hibernating habits of the insect in this 

 country. We cannot call to mind anything on the subject save Mr. J. H. Carpenter's 

 note in this Magazine, 2nd series, vii, p. 279. — Eds.]. 



Query concerning Lyvana Arion. — I should be very grateful if any of your 

 correspondents could tell me of a station on the Continent where Lyccena Avion 

 is common, and the approximate date of its appearance on the wing. I am anxious 

 to secure a number of pregnant females with a view to breeding the insect. — C. C. 

 Dallas, Lymington, Hants : January, 1899. 



Eupithecia arceuthata, Frr., and Ptocheitum osseella, Stn.,in Surrey. — On July 

 1st, 1898, whilst collecting Argyresthice from the juniper bushes on the downs south 

 of Croydon, I caught two specimens of Eupithecia arceuthata. As both proved to 

 be females, one was kept alive, and supplied with a sprig of juniper, in the hope 

 that she mght deposit ova, but, unfortunately, the only result was that a beautiful 

 specimen was dctroyed. 



