12 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



1846. Two Bristol, St. Just from Noye. One Seaman» 



Ipswich. 

 Fiiinea pitlla. — 1. Hammersmith, June, 1844, S. Stephens. 

 Niidaria viiindana. — 5. Unlabelled. 



yiniaria senex. — 1. Hammersmith Marshes, July 1846, S. Stephens. 

 Liuiacodes testudo. — 1. Seaman, Ipswich 1846. 

 Calliniorpha jacohaeac. — Two from A.G. Wood. One Penzance, Noye, 



1846. One Whitwell, 1844. 

 Calliiiwrpha miniata. — 5. One Witham, Walford, 1846. Three 



Epping, H. Doubleday, 1846. One Hoddesdon, 1845, A.G. 

 Lithima aureola. — 1. Unlabelled. 



Litluma helvola. — 2. Black Park, July, 1846, Stephens. 



{To be concluded.) 



Collecting Orthoptera in the Caucasus and Transcaucasus. 



(With two plates.) 



By MALCOLM BURR, D.Sc, F.E.S. 



(Continued from Vol. xxiv., j)- (i02). 



The following day, September 2nd (New Style), after enjoying 

 with Mr. Zaitsetf the hospitality for which Russians are famous, we 

 collected in the Botanic Gardens, accompanied by Evgeny Georgevich 

 Konig, a fine specimen of the experienced entomologist, who was only 

 too glad to meet a brother of the net from distant England. On the 

 hills behind the gardens proper there is an expanse of wild hillside, 

 covered with grass and thorny scrub, burnt dry by the southern sun. 

 Here we found a truly meridional fauna. Decticxis albifrons, Fabr., 

 Irin oratoria, L., and above all Splirouiantia biocidata, Burm., Acridium. 

 ae(i}/ptiiuii, L., Acrida turrita, L., Caloptenus italicns, L., Tettix 

 depretisHs, Bris., Plati/deis affinis, Charp., Acroti/lus patriielis, Sturm, 

 and P. rittata, Charp., shewed that we were collecting in the extreme 

 south. The eastern element was represented by Oedipoda srhochii, 

 Sauss., a relative of the common European O. caenUescens, but heavy 

 and clumsy in build, resembling an Kremodiid and occurring in 

 Syria and Asia Minor, the Mantid Bolivaria brac/n/ptera, Pall., 

 PachytijlnH iinfiratoriiis, L., and Stauroderiis cor/nattis, Fieb. Another 

 species characteristic of Asia Minor and the Southern Caucasus was 

 Paradrj/nn/diisa sonlula, Herm., and a spidery, apterous Decticid, 

 Olipithoscelis indistincta, Bol., a rare and little known species, 

 hitherto only known from a single locality in Asia Minor. The 

 central European element which transgresses into the south was 

 represented hy Mantis relii/iosa, L., Stauroderiis bicolor, Charp., Oedipoda 

 caeriileseens, L., Lociista riridissiina, L., Chortliippiis alboiuarr/iuatiis, De 

 Geer, Plati/rleis (/risea, Fabr., and Staiiroderus raiians, Fieb.''- 



At midnight my friends saw me into the train. The station was 

 thronged with Russian otKicials, black-eyed Georgians and Armenians, 

 dignified Tartars, stolid Persians, and stately representatives of many 



* Other interesting species taken here by Messrs. Zaitseff and Konig, which I 

 failed to come across, are the southern and eastern Saga epldppigera, F. de W., 

 Polyphaga aegyptiuca, L., Tridactylus variegatus, Latr., Stauronotus hrevicolUs, 

 Eversm., Thalpomena ledereri, Sauss., Tinethis hilobus, Stol., Poecilimon siinilis, 

 Retowski, Isophya acuminata, Br., etc. 



