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L. triflorHR, Erica scopan'a, SparttKni junceum, and ivy. The latter is 

 a favourite food. I do not remember ever to have found them on any 

 species of oak. 



Guenee who worked out these two races from larvie snpphed hhn 

 from Cannes by M. Milliere, gives a careful description of the larvae 

 in all stages {Ann. Soc. I\)it. Fr., 186H, p. 407) which, however, would 

 unduly lengthen this article to quote adequately. He also gives a 

 useful comparative table of L. (jucrcus, vallunoe, and rilninii. While 

 recognising that /.. (incn-iis (jiicridioitalis) from southern France differs 

 from Parisian L. (jkitcks, he does not, in my opinion, allow sufficiently 

 for this difterence, as many of the landmarks he gives for distinguishing 

 L. var. ribiimi from L. qnnrus, though they differentiate it from the 

 northern forms, do not sever it from L. var. nieridiunalis. The follow- 

 ing are his chief points : 



Vibund j . — Coffee- or violet-brown, Quercvs ^ . — Rufous or tan-coloured, 



middle size, wings u little square, band small, wings short, hindwings rounded, 



less yellow on forewings, narrow, clearly bands concolorous on all wings variable 



cut on both sides on the forewings, in width on forewings. irregularly 



straight with a bend at each end. On sinuated inside, shading into ground- 



the hindwing, elbow-curved, as narrow colour outside. On the hindwings the 



as on forewing, clearly detached from curve is regular, the band melting more 



marginal space. or less into the ground colour, which is 



always more or less marked with 

 yellow. 



Vibunii ? . — Wings broad ochreous- Quernh ? . — Light yellow - ochre 



yellow warmed with violet-brown. (tinted with reddish in var. ii), nervares 



nervures lighter or concolorous. Fringe darker, bands indistinct, marginal area 



of hindwings reddish with the extremity of all wings always light. Fringe 



only straw-colour. absolutely concolorous. 



I do not know that any of these differences hold absolutely except 

 perhaps the one referring to the fringe in the female. 



(7V( be continui'd.) 



Observations on sooe new and little=known Orthoptera 

 with biological notes . 



By J. POKTOCHINSKY (translated by Jacob Kotinskv). 



{('(mtinned from j>. 213.) 



The last species upon which I should like to dwell somewhat 

 at length is interesting, not only because of the colour of its hind- 

 legs, but also on account of many other considerations, since the 

 insect is still little known. I speak of Xorarndcs ri/anijics, F. v. W. 

 Although this Orthopteron was described as long ago as 1846 by the 

 eminent entomologist Fischer von Waldheim, its exact characters 

 have only been determined recently, 1883, by Brunner von Wattenwyl, 

 in his well-known work on European Orthoptera. Until noAV it was 

 known only that this interesting insect lives with us in the Caucasus 

 (in Karabakh) and in Asia Minor. Fischer von Waldheim gives the 

 plains of Karabakh as its habitat, which is positively wrong. Accord- 

 ing to my observations, X ii/am'jx's is a purely mountainous form that, 

 beyond doubt, never occurs in the plains, and Fischer's specimens 

 were not from the plains but the mountains of Karabakh. These 



* From Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, vol. xx., pp. 111-127, pi. xii., 

 1886. 



