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day I had a couple of hours collecting at Kolonia in dull weather. 

 There I found a few Thais cerisyi including one or two very small 

 specimens. The local T. cerisyi race seemed with few exceptions much 

 nearer to deyrollei than to the nymotypical form. A few Doritis 

 apollinus, E. cardamines, A. crameri $ s, and a fine ? of A. belemia 

 (1st brood) were taken and P. icarus and P. brassicae seen. On March 

 26th I had a few minutes collecting by the roadside near Ainkarim 

 and took D. apollinus and E. cardamines var. phoenissa. On the 28th 

 I took all the species noted on the 24th near Bethlehem, my best 

 capture being a dwarf $ E. cardamines race phoenissa of 22mm. in 

 expanse. On the 31st I had about half an hour at Kolonia and took 

 most of the insects seen on the 24th with a $ R. phlaeas and a fine 

 $ S. (T.) baton var. clara. Here, as elsewhere on the Judsean plateau 

 insects were not nearly as frequent as at Mt. Carmel or Jericho, but 

 spring had barely begun and I could not have expected much in any 

 case. 



' May I add that a late autumn brood of A. charlonia appears at 

 Jericho in November, teste specimens in the collection of the Ministry 

 of Agriculture, Cairo. 



The French Jura in June=July, 1920. 



By Lt. E. B. ASHBY, F.E.S., and Member Soc. Ent. de France. 



Leaving London on Friday morning, June 25th, and travelling via 

 Newhaven, Dieppe, Paris, and Bourg, I arrived early on the morning 

 of June 26th at Bellegarde. Having three hours to spare before the only 

 train this month left for Gex, I explored the fine waterfall, La Perte 

 du Rhone, a short distance from Bellegarde station. Climbing up 

 through the woods on the left bank of the Rhone, I came out at the 

 top into a meadow of partly cut hay-grass. 



Here I found Melanargia galathea in large numbers and good con- 

 dition, together with Epinephele jurtina and a specimen or two of Cyaniris 

 semiargus (acis) and Lycaena arion, and Polyommatus icarus in perfect 

 condition ; a few of the Neuropteron Ascalaphus longicomis were flying 

 to and fro, whilst Zygaena filipendulae and Z. lonicerae were swarming 

 at the flowers of Scabiosa succisa. 



A good number of the beetles Curculio (Hylobius) abietis, L., were 

 dashing about in the hot sun, and I took one specimen also of the 

 pretty beetle, Ulythra laeviusada, Ratz. ; but the interest of the 

 meadow centred in the Orthoptera which swarmed in the uncut grass. 

 From this I turned out a male and female of the sluggish green grass- 

 hopper with long" antennas, fat body, well developed green elytra, with 

 a row of black spots, the Orthopteron Decticus verrucivorus, L. 



I also turned out two fine males of the grasshopper, whose dark 

 olive body, yellowish antennas tipped with black, crimson hinder tibiae 

 and tarsi, with a yellow basal ring ; hinder femora yellowish above, 

 green outside, crimson inside and underneath, with a yellow annulus 

 near apex ; yellow venter and hinder knees quite black in both sexes, 

 smoky blackish wings and chestnut elytra with yellowish anal area, 

 proclaim them Arcyptera fusca, Pallas. 



I also secured here two males of the Stauroderus scaleris, 

 F.W. ; I also took a larva of the genus Chelidoptera, but I 

 have not succeeded in ascertaining the species. Here also I 



