FIELD NOTES FROM SALONIKA. I. 1938 
faced Decticid, also come in and crawl up the mosquito netting in 
search of flies. 
On June 18th, I took a pair of graceful yellow-winged Arcyptera, 
probably A. flavicosta, and found Chorthippus pulvinatus in numbers in 
certain localities on the plain, together with a Stauroderus that may be 
S. vagans, Charp. Xiphidiwn fuscum, Fabr., is not very common, but 
mature at the end of June, and early in July the graceful Tylepsis 
liliijolia, sometimes green, sometimes buff, is adult; I have not yet 
seen the marked form, margineyuttata ; nymphs are still numerous. 
On July 4th, Captain Powell brought in a male Acrometopa macropoda, 
a handsome and delicate Phaneropterid like Tylopsis, but two or three 
times larger; this species occurs only in the extreme south of the 
eastern Mediterranean coasts. 
There is a species of Saya, which is far from rare here, but I do 
not know what species it is, as it is decidedly smaller than the south 
central European S. serrata, and a great deal smaller than the other 
Levantine species, I am inclined to think it is new; it is of a uniform 
grass-green as a rule, but one female, rather a big one, after a day in 
captivity, turned to a greyish-brown, freely mottled with white; the 
Ovipositor in this specimen was deformed ; another female was of this 
marbled pattern when in the nymph stage, as late as July 4th, but all 
the others were plain green. They are sluggish creatures, walking 
with a slow, methodical, curious swinging gait, constantly stooping to 
lick the soles of their dilated tarsi, which have a powerful sucking 
action, so that these big insects can stand on a pane of glass like a fly. 
They are quick enough in their movements when they pounce on their 
prey. I fed them on grasshoppers; a larva of Acrida was seized by 
the frons, and the skin only eaten, the interior of the body being 
rejected ; adult grasshoppers were seized by the head, held by the 
powerful spiny front legs, and methodically chewed down from head to 
tail, in spite of its kicks, only the horny parts, the elytra, wings, and 
legs being rejected. One soft specimen, barely out from the old skin, 
was evidently a toothsome morsel, for it was chewed right up from end 
to end; the front legs are used for clasping the prey, as a squirrel holds 
a nut, and the femora are slightly thickened; they are, indeed, more 
noticeably thickened than the posterior femora. I kept a pair alive for 
some time, but in separate cages, for fear they would fight and mutilate 
each other; one day, a friend of an enquiring turn of mind, put the 
two together; the male at once approached the female and stood along- 
side her, ‘‘ top and tail,” gripped her ovipositor firmly in his mandibles, 
and, curving up the posterior end of the abdomen forwards towards the 
apex of her abdomen, deposited a pellucid bag containing the spermato- 
phores ; after a couple of minutes he let go, and remained quiet. 
Early in July, Lieut.-Col. Parsons, R.A.M.C., and Captain Ewens, 
R.A.M.C., both fired with the fever of collecting, discovered a small 
colony of Dinarchus dasypus, and took me to the spot; I found them 
sitting high up on thorny shrubs, Hleagnus I think, and quite con- 
spicuous. We took four males, and put them in a cage together, but, 
though apparently vegetarians, they opened their powerful mandibles, 
and started fighting, so for fear of seeing the specimens spoilt, I very 
reluctantly killed these portly fellows, who make quite friendly and 
entertaining pets. 
