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Exhibitions. 



Orthoptera from Salonica. Mr. W. J. Lucas, exhibiting 

 some Orthoptera from Salonica, made the following observa- 

 t ions : 



From time to time Mr. I'. •). Barraud, one of the Fellows 

 of this Society, has sent me insects from Salonica belonging 

 to the orders Orthoptera, Odonata ; and Neuroptera. This 

 evening I have broughl up the Orthoptera, mainly for the 

 sake of a very interesting form of the common earwig Forficula 

 auricularia, Linn. They comprise : 



Labidura riparia, Pall. One male from Salt Lake near 

 Naresh, Salonica-Janes Road, Aug. 1, 1918. It is scarcely 

 as large as some of our south-coast examples and much darker 

 in colour, unless this is due to change in drying. 



Forficula auricularia, Linn. var. Six male and three 

 females. There is a large whitish spot on the wing-tips 

 (sometimes indicated in British specimens): the colour is 

 dark; and all the males sent have "high" callipers, the 

 greatest length in a straight line from base to tip being '.» mm. 

 ll was common, or fairly so. in May and .lime I'.HT and 1918, 

 at Saracli (1000 ft.) and Paprat (2200 ft.). It was also found 

 (females apparently) in winter at Basanli, hibernating in a 

 rotten cherry log. 



Empusa fasciata, Brulle. A male, taken June I. 1917, at 

 Saracli. 



Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa, Linn. A female, from Kopriva, 

 Struma Valley, Salonica. It was common at low elevations 

 in April. May and .lime 11)18. 



Macedonian Orthoptera. Captain Burr exhibited a 

 series of Orthoptera from Macedonia, including Saga natoliae, 

 S. vittata, and Saga sp. n.; also a pair of Dinarchus dasypus, 

 Illig., and a small serie of Glyphanus heldreichi, Br., a 

 wingless GEdipodid, which assimilates very closely to the 

 ground, bu1 on jumping turns a somersaull which flashes its 

 white ventral surface: the inner face of the posterior femora 

 arc brighl blue and lemon yellow, and the neck membrane 

 brighl indigo, hut- none of these brilliant colours are exposed 

 under ordinary circumstances. It ha been suggested that 



