Courtship of certain Huropean Acridiide. 2A7 
and having found one gently touched her with the plant 
extremity. She did not stir, and I became bolder; I 
rubbed her body on either side and also the inside of the 
coxe and antenne. She was still unmoved, except that 
a slight rigidity seemed to supervene, and the abdominal 
extremity curved slightly upwards. Gently tickling this 
part the curve rose and the rigidity seemed more marked. 
I now stroked heras gently as I could, and she permitted 
this exireme familiarity without resentment. Lastly, I 
took her softly up and laid her in the palm of my hand. 
Turning her from side to side she seemed quite content 
and did not exhibit a flutter ora tremor. I continued 
my caressings for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, 
and then laid her in a warm spot and watched her for 
another quarter of an hour. She did not move, although 
she was alive enough. Was she hypnotized ??’ 
This last interesting observation suggests that very 
marked effects may be produced by the patting which I 
witnessed on August 30th, and by the mbbling in the 
case of Pezotettiv. In this latter species, indeed, the 
effect produced on a female after her first unsuccessful 
attempts to throw off the male, appeared to be very 
much like that induced by Mr. Dickins in the female of 
Gomphocerus. 
SYETHOPHYMA FUSCUM. 
This magnificent species was very abundant in thie 
open grassy spaces between the trees at the water- 
courses some few hundred feet below the hotel, and also 
in certain places on the slopes far below the Bella Tola. 
The stridulation was far more characteristic than that of 
any other species observed: first three (sometimes two) 
strokes of the third legs across the tegmina, then a rapid 
vibration of the former against the latter for a few 
seconds. ‘The result is three piercing sounds in rapid 
succession, and then a prolonged rustle. The rivalry 
between the males and their replies one to another were 
very evident, but their relations to the female were only 
witnessed once or twice. 
Avcust 31.—This species was observed by the water- 
courses. Many females were seen but never attended 
by males on this occasion. I came across a pair of males 
in the grass fighting in a very clumsy mauner: they lay 
