Statement 
in 
Amos vii. 1 
in reference 
to grass- 
hoppers 
considered, 
Only a few 
species of 
Neuroptera 
noticed in 
the East. 
Description 
of them. 
Libellula 
depressa. 
Calepteryx 
virgo. 
( Libel- 
lula 
striolata 
1. « Sympe- 
trum 
strio- 
Uatum, 
2. Croco- 
themis 
erythrea, 
124 REV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S. 
noted, in Amos vil. 1: “Thus hath the Lord God showed 
unto me ; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning 
of the shooting up of the latter growth ; and, lo, it was the 
latter growth after the king’s mowings.” 
Several of the Orthoptera are not formed—in other words, 
do not receive their full development of wings—till late on in 
the autumn; nor, as far as my own observation and that of a 
relative go, are the grasshoppers any earlier in Corsica and 
the South of Europe in this respect than our English ones, 
although they continue on the shores of the Mediterranean 
much later, where I have noticed them through November, 
andeven up to Christmas ; whereas they disappear from our 
fields at home in or about the middle of September. 
The difference between the English Orthoptera on the one 
hand, and those from the South of Europe and the Kast on 
the other, is that the latter are more numerous in species, 
and in individual number, and also in many instances larger 
in size. Single specimens of locusts are very rare and occa- 
sional visitors here, thus furnishing, even when they do occur, 
a marked distinction to the hordes which commit ‘such wide- 
spread and utter devastation in South Russia, Cyprus, and 
elsewhere in the East. 
Neuroptera, understanding by this term all species belonging 
to the tribe, according to the Linnzan application, are only 
scantily represented, as a rule, so far as my own observation 
ooes, in the regions of the Hast. Jor example, in my tour of 
1882, I only came across four species of dragon-flies, and 
three of these were common English ones, two of them, viz., 
Libellula depressa and Calepteryx virgo, skimming around 
the luxuriant vegetation on the banks of the River Meles (a 
short distance above the grotto of its Nymph, and where she 
is reported, according to popular tradition, to have nursed 
the poet Homer), on May 8. ‘The same two species were also 
noticed at a later date, namely, May 25, about the wooded 
and stream-fed lawns adjoining the great bend or reservoir 
of Sultan Selim, in the vicinity of the village and forest 
of Belgrade; while the third and commonest kind was 
Sympetrum striolatum, likewise seen at Belgrade, and so 
plentiful at home, more especially on heath or common in the 
autumn, The fourth one, also occurring at Belgrade, was 
Crocothemis erythrea, of the same shape and size as L. 
striolata (otherwise called Sympetrum. striolatum), but clearly 
to be distinguished by its bright red body from the tawny 
colour of the latter. During my second expedition, I have 
also only the occurrence of four species to report in the 
months of November and December, 1883, as follows :— 
