28 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Continent, and that the common Praying Mantis and common Stick 

 Insect are missing with us for the same reason. The Ephippigerids 

 have one feature very distinctive from almost all other Orthoptera : 

 the stridulating organs are equally well developed in both sexes, and, 

 moreover, they chirp with rage when seized with the fingers. The 

 stridulation has a peculiar squeaky timbre which is unmistakeableonce 

 heard. I was surprised to hear it along the road from Topchider to 

 Rakovitsa in Serbia, near Belgrad, for I never expected to find a 

 representative of this genus in the Balkans, excepting the coastal strip 

 of Dalmatia, where I have taken K. kransxi and E. sphacoji/rilns from 

 Istria to the Bocche di Cattaro. Another peculiar feature about their 

 stridulation is that they are noisy in the morning, which is unusual 

 with Locustine Orthoptera, become silent m the afternoon and strike 

 up again in the evening and keep it up late. The latest date I have 

 recorded is October 15th on the Pantovchak. 



In the dell at the bottom of my garden, between the Pantovchak 

 and the Tushkanats, Gomphucerus rufus, L., is common enough on the 

 slopes running down to the brook. The last specimens I saw there on 

 October 10th, when I found St., bicolor, Charp., Ch. paralleliis, Zett., 

 Platj/phj/iiia f/iornae, Rossi, and X. fnacum, Fabr. P. ///or»rt<^ is always 

 very prominent in the autumn in southern Europe, as he frequents 

 open dry places, Avhere he is easily seen ; he lingers on in some 

 numbers right up to the winter, when almost all other Orthoptera have 

 disappeared, and the appearance of the numerous pairs hopping about 

 together in copula, the very small male on the back of the mate who is 

 twice his size, like so many little frogs, attract the eye. Other species 

 in my garden were Omocfstiis nijipes, Zett., and (). viridtiliin, L., but 

 not very numerous, Acroti/liis, probabl}^ insnhricns, Scop., and Oedipoda 

 caeridfscens, occasionally seen, an occasional Caloptenm italicits, L., and 

 Acri/diuni bipiinctatiiiii, L. In Maximir Park, near Zagreb, I found 

 Ch. eleyans, Charp. 



At Pitomacha, a village in the flat valley of the Drave, where 

 everything is cultivated and artificialised, I came across little to add to 

 this list, There are plenty of marshy fields there, dried up by the 

 drought, and at Sedlaritsa, 9 km. further south, on the edge of a great 

 forest. In these swampy fields Merostcthus f/rossiiti, L., ('hortJtippiis 

 paralleliis, Zett., and Ch. dorsatiis, Zett., are common. Arri/ditiDi 

 suhulattni), L., was common in a wood. Ph. t/riseoapteia in the hedges 

 and Phastf. viridistiivia in the oaks. , 



As to Blattids, of course, lilattella ctennanica, L., is a "common 

 object of the restaurants " in Zagreb, but I came across no other 

 species. As to crickets, the Mole Cricket may usually be heard 

 chirping on warm summer nights ; I have noticed him at Pitomacha 

 and near the Okrugliak, just outside Zagreb. (Tyi/Uns doinesticns, L., 

 chirrupped away cheerfully in the vicarage at Pitomacha, and G. 

 caiiijiestris resounds all the spring and late summer, throughout the 

 countryside. It was still busy at Pitomacha on October 4th, and 

 round Zagreb on the Pantovchak as late as the 22nd. On the 4th, at 

 Pitomacha, in a wood, there were minute Gryllid larva?, which I think 

 may well have been those of N<')ii(>biH.s nj/lrestris, Fabr. On October 

 22nd, a female Phaneroptera fulcata, Scop., flew into my bedroom, 

 attracted by the light. On the 16th, a bright sunny Sunday afternoon, 

 in a clearing by some big woods near the Pantovchak, St. hicolor, 



