ON ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. MS 
Or, to go more into particulars, I discovered the red variety 
of Cidipoda germanica (or fasciata, as it is more correctly 
named) to be as widely distributed in the Hast as previous 
experience had made me acquainted with its occurrence in 
Switzerland, Italy, and Corsica, for I found it on the banks 
of the Pharpar on the 19th of April, where it took its short 
flights amid the corn; and again in the neighbourhood of 
Alexandretta, in the direction of Issus, on the 28th of the 
same month, as we toiled up among the myrtles, pome- 
eranates, Portugal laurels, and styrax trees, beneath a very 
hot sun, to the ruins of the old castle of Merkes, two 
hundred yards from the shore; and, lastly, I noticed it on 
the road leading to Marathon, on the 5th of June, as also 
previously at Belgrade, on the 28th of May. Acridium 
tataricum, a locust with smoky-brown wings, likewise a 
_ common species in Italy and Corsica, was also found near 
Alexandretta, on the road to Marathon, and at Beyrout as 
well. Of Mantis religiosa I obtained a specimen off the 
orange-trees in the island of Roda, in March, and another, 
clinging to a bough of Ficus elasticus, was brought me at 
Beyrout, in April. There are also several grasshoppers. that 
I collected in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey, and 
Greece, and chiefly in the last-named country, but which, if 
differing in kind, do not differ in their light-brown or dust- 
coloured hue, as well as general appearance, from our common 
field grasshopper at home. Specimens of a stoutly-built 
species were found in the classic regions of the Acropolis, 
Pnyx, Stadium, Lycabettus, and Pass of Daphne. I have 
two small specimens of the larva of a Mantis, belonging, 
possibly, to the genus Hremiaphila, and bearing out its title 
in its natural habitat, as it was scarcely distinguishable 
in hue from the desert sand of Gebel Hashab, where I 
discovered it on the 22nd of March. Lastly, the mention of 
a remarkable-looking insect, Callimenus oniscus, must not be 
omitted. It is a wingless locust, that keeps up an incessant 
and shrill chirp in the underwood of myrtle and cistus, Wc., 
on each side of the roads to Laurium and Marathon. As it 
hushes its strain when approached, it is not always easy to 
detect its presence, more particularly as its ground-colour is 
a bright apple-green, traversed by numerous horizontal bars 
of black across the body. This beautiful colouring, however, 
is turned to brown after its inevitable consignment to a wide- 
mouthed phial of spirits. It, no doubt, derives its specific 
name of dvoKxoc, ‘the little ass,’ im consequence of its 
similarity, from a dorsal point of view, to that beast of 
burden, There is great accuracy and scientific truth, be it 
(Edipoda 
germanica 
(red 
variety). 
Acridium 
tataricum, 
Mantis 
religiosa. 
Callimenus 
oniscus. 
