8 tHfi entomologist's record. 



Savoy Alpo, and the Deiit du Midi. JJeiiind Cuux the road runs along 

 the side of the hills to Les Avants. On the meadows and among the 

 thickets that grow on the slopes by this road, I found Stciwhothrns 

 parall(ii(f<, Zett., and .S'. vrridulus, L., very common. N'. IhicatKs, 

 Panz., was there, but less common, 1 found a single PsopIiKu striihdux, 

 L., conspicuous in his deep black colour and crimson wings ; one 

 StctJioji/ii/ma fi(sciun, L., attracted attention to itself by its conspicuous 

 coloration, and curious rattling Hight. Its advertisement of its 

 presence was fatal to it, as I soon had him in my bottle, but I remem- 

 ber that, when I first made the acquaintance of the species, ten years 

 ago, in the Savoy Alps, above Aix-les-Bains, I was terrified by the 

 rattling clatter that it made in flight, and could only just screw up my 

 courage enough to let curiosity overcome timidity. I found 

 Plati/clcis roetiaUi, Hagenb., but not numerous. Our old friends 

 Thaninotrizon cinrrcux, L., and Plati/cleis i/risea, Fabr., was common 

 enough, and so was Jjx-uxta cavtana, which kept up a continual chorus 

 in the grounds of the hotel itself. Chrymchraon bracJn/ptcnis, Ocsk.,v,'a.s 

 abundant on the grassy slopes. It is a pity that this beautiful 

 little grasshopper so quickly loses its brilliant emerald-green colour and 

 fades to a dirty brown. In orthoptera, the tender and delicate greens 

 can be kept with a little care, but the more metallic or oily greens fade 

 in spite of everything. The two species of ('hnjaochraon, and the 

 various Podisiiia, when dried and faded in the cabinet are very different 

 from the brilliant and glittering insects that we find in their native 

 haunts. I'odisma al}iininii, Koll., was also common a little above 

 Caux, in the woods especially. I took a single Stenobvt/irus ragaii>< 

 lower down in the valley. 1)n-tiviis nrnicirorns^ L., was, of course, to 

 be found nearly everywhere. 



As we went higher, we found new forms. At Jaman, and again in 

 the dells round the Rochers de Naye, at about 2000 metres, I found 

 <T(iiiiiiho<rri(s sibirinis, L., in numbers, and two species that I had not 

 previously seen alive. One was I'lati/deis mnxsnreana, Frey, a species 

 closely allied to our English /'. hrnr/n/ptt'ra ; it is common enough in 

 the grassy uplands of Central Ivirope. The other was Orpliunia 

 ileiitiraiida, Charp., a great clumsy, fat, smooth, green, apterous 

 Phaneropterid ; our only English member of the family, fj'iitiipJn/cs 

 piinctatisdiiia, Bosc, gives a very poor idea of its big relation. It was 

 common enough chirping in the long grass, and very easy to pick up 

 with the fingers. It is a very widely distributed species. It occurs in 

 the Pyrenees, all through the Alps and the Tirol, in the hills near 

 Budapest, in the southern spur of the Carpathians and in the 

 mountains of Servia and Transsylvania, and down the Dalmatian coast 

 as far as Castellastua. It is strange that I had never actually seen it 

 before, but I have probably been too early in the season. In the late 

 summer, at Tiibingeu, Dr. Krauss once told me, they are so common 

 along the railway bank that their chirp can be heard even in passing 

 trains. 



Notes oil Abraxas grossulariata and how to rear it. 



By (Ekv.) G. it. KAYNOE, M.A. 

 {Concluded from p. 325.) 

 The exceptionally small size of this latter specimen {a}it('a,\[v., p. 825) 

 is undoubtedly due to the fact that it comes of a race which has been con- 



