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To the visitor to Digne, in July, I would especially commend the 

 fruit obtainable there ; large luscious peaches, to be purchased at the 

 rate of ten a penny, and delicious water melons, almost equally cheap. 

 We usually took with us on our day's excursion a large bag of peaches 

 and a melon, leaving them to keep cool in a spring where we lunched, 

 and we found it a great consolation to visit that spring, after an hour 

 or two in the sun. 



Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe. 



By MALCOLM BURR, B.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 (Continued from vol. xvii., p. 64.) 

 Genus IX : Stauroderus, Bolivar. 

 This comprises Brunner's groups 2 and 4, and is defined and 

 classified by Bolivar. 



Table of Species. 

 1. Ulnar veins of elytra only separate at base, fused in 

 rest of elytra. 



2. Large. (20mm. <?, 27mm. ? .) Wings dark. .. 1. morio, Fabr. 

 2.2. Smaller. (14mm. d , 20mm. ? .) Wings 



hyaline. . . . . . . . . . . 2. apkicauius, L. 



l.l. Ulnar veins diverging from the base. 



2. Typical sulcus of pronotum behind the middle. 

 3. Posterior tibia3 red ; posterior femora with 

 greyish bands more or less distinct, or 

 with dark spots, rarely unicolorous, in 

 one sj)ecies in which the elytra and wings 

 are very short. 



4. Larger. Elytra and wings well developed 

 in both sexes, reaching at least to 

 end of abdomen, rarely somewhat 

 shorter in the ? . 



5. Elytra surpassing abdomen, of 



uniform colour with a single 



white spot about two-thirds the 



length ; posterior tibiae with a 



pale ring near the base ; colour 



greenish ; size large. (16mm.- 



20mm. d , 22mm. -27mm. ? .) . . 



5.-5. Elytra not longer than abdomen, 



sometimes a little shorter in 



the ? ; former with a series of 



black spots along discoidal 



area, and an anteapical white 



spot ; hinder tibi;e blackish 



beneath at apex; colour grey, 



more or less reddish; size 



smaller. (16mm. j , 20mm.- 



23mm. ? .) . . . . . . 4. saulcyi, Krauss. 



4.4. Smaller (ISmra. d" , 19mm. ? ). 

 Elytra and wings hardly covering 

 abdomen in c? , exposing half in ? ; 

 with scapular area of c? much 

 dilated. 

 5. Discoidal area of elytra spotted 

 with black ; knees paler ; (typical 

 sulcus in middle). Spanish 

 species. 

 5.5. Discoidal area unspotted ; knees 

 black ; (typical sulcus behind 

 middle). East European 

 species. . . 



3. BiNOTATUs, Charp. 



5. CAzuiiRoi, Bolivar. 



6. puiiLUS, Phil. 



