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the beautiful itediinnla salina { = firatiosa, Sei'v.), as well as the 

 Dfi-icori/s, are good instances, but I was surprised to find a Truxalid 

 with rosy wings, Staiiri))totiis anatolinix, Kr., a large eastern species 

 of this interesting genus. ]Jericuri/s rosri/jeuitis appears to be very- 

 localised, for I found it only in one of the patches of Salsnla, near 

 a gorge in the range of hills called Boz-dagh, a line of hummocks 

 some 300-400 feet high, running parallel to the main range, butof the 

 same formation as the steppes, of which it is merely a recent 

 crumpling. It was also in this neighbourhood that I found 

 Staiiroiiiitiis aiiotidiciis. Blue-winged forms are less numerous, 

 Oedipotia cacnilcsrens, L., is common, and once or twice I came 

 across (>. si-imr/tii, Sauss., its ponderous relative. Sphini/onotun 

 caeridavs, L., occurs commonly in the neighbourhood of Boz- 

 dagh, but not generally, and in the garden at Geok-Tapa I took 

 two or three specimens of N. aziiresrens, Ramb. The only yellow- 

 winged forms which I noticed were Mioscirtnn \ra(jnen, Eversm., an 

 elegant little Turkestane?e Oedipod that I took by the roadside near 

 Khaldan, Ot'ihtlciia nit/rofasciatiis, De G., and its ally, (>. inlohosieiriczu-'- 

 Bol., which has not been previously recorded from the Caucasus. It 

 was described by Bolivar from Asia Minor. 



The uniformity of the steppe is surprising, and it is difficult to 

 specify any particular spot; occasionally dry beds of streams show 

 where the spring torrents run, and in their neighbourhood occur the 

 chief patches of Sahola, but it was only on one that I found the Deri- 

 coiys. In others its place was taken by T/iisoicetri(.'< ad>;j)er!iits, Redt., 

 first described from Turkestan, but now known to have a wide range. 

 I possess a series from Tunis, Algeria, and southern Spain. An 

 interesting Mantid, BoUvaria hracln/ptera, Pall., a native of the deserts 

 of the extreme east of Europe and west of Asia, also occurred here. 



Near the oasis formed by a small tributary of the Kura, on the 

 muddy banks of which Triilactijliis roriei/attm, Latr., is common, there 

 was water, even after three months' drought. There is a network of 

 small canals, which irrigate the rice fields, and in their neighbourhood 

 vegetation is richer, but in one case at least the barren steppe actually 

 adjoins a canal. Were there a supply of water through the dry 

 season, the steppe would probably afford an exceedingly rich soil. 

 Loosestrife and other fiowers and shrubs grow plentifully along the 

 banks of the canals, and in them T/iiaoicetnis dorsatm, F. de W., is 

 abundant ; the female is clumsy and heavy, but the male is an elegant 

 creature. The rich green elytra with black axillary stripe and long 

 white-tipped antennjB, make it a conspicuous object. At Boz-dagh, 

 far from the canals, where all is dry, I took a few specimens where the 

 green is replaced by ochre-yellow. It is tempting to think that the 

 bleaching is due to actual want of moisture, rather than to an attempt 

 to assimilate itself to its surroundings, since I found it on the green 

 clumps of Salsola. 



Paratettix vieridionalis'''-, Serv., is abundant near the canal, it is 

 adult in September, and has, apparently, not before been recorded 

 from the Caucasus ; Tettix depressiis, Bris., is common enough ; 

 I. bipunctatiis, L., or arx allied species, occurred only in the immature 

 stages ; Eiiprepocneuiis jdoranfi, Charp., an extremely meridional 

 species, never occurring in Europe far from the coast of the Mediter- 

 ranean, is abundant, and in habits and appearance, it resembles its 



