4 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



representatives of the Thecla group to be taken. The lack of a 

 long-handled net was badly felt when dealing with this genus, 

 although the w- album were present in abnormal quantity and at 

 low elevations. 



Chriisop'iumns phlceas were in plenty, being found most 

 plentifully in standing wheat and oat-fields. 



Polyommatus icarus, Celastrina argiolus and Ciipido minimus 

 represented the Lycana group, the first in great numbers, but 

 the last two named were uncommon, only one specimen of each 

 being obtained. 



Bespeiia ■malrce, Adopcea fiava (thavmas) and Augiades 

 sylvaniis represented that interesting family the Hesperiidce, 

 being frequent in all lucerne, clover and wheat-fields. 



It is hardly to be doubted that more experienced ento- 

 mologists, with more time at their disposal than we had, would 

 have succeeded in deriving considerable information as to the 

 differences of habit and frequency of Continental Khopalocera 

 of Northern France from our own. Any information that we 

 can give will be gladly put at the disposal of any inquirers. 



1st Army Artillery School, 

 B.E.F. 



ORTHOPTEEA, ODONATA AND NEUROPTERA FROM 



SALONICA. 



By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



In vol. xlix (1916) of the * Entotnologist,' p. 248, I phiced on 

 record a few Neuroptera and Odonata sent me by Mr. P. J. 

 Barraud, F.E.S., from the Salonica front. I have since received 

 three other small consignments made l)y the same entomologist 

 in the same interesting district. They are as follows : 



Orthoptera. 



Labidura ripa?'»a, Pall. — One male of the large earwig, which, 

 though now British, it;, it is to be feared, disappearing from its 

 one known locality on the Hampshire coast. The insect sent 

 was taken at Salt Lake, near Naresh, Salonica-Janes Road, on 

 August 4th, 1918. It is a dark example, but the colour may be 

 partly due to drying, though one would think it could never have 

 had the dirty-white tint of British examples. 



Forficida auricidaria, Linn., var. conspicua. — One teneral male 

 (1917, but otherwise undated), apparently having but recently 

 become an imago. One male, May 8th, 1917, and one female, May 

 14th, 1917, from Saracli, fairly common at an elevation of 1000 ft. 

 They were also found in winter at Basanli hibernating in a rotten 

 cherry-log. Four males and two females from Paprat, common 

 at an elevation of 2200 ft., in May and June, 1918. These ear- 



