Kn 12 1917, 



FIELD NOTES FROM SALONIKA. III. 45 



Field Notes From Salonika. III. 



By Captain M. BURR, D.Sc, F.E.S. 

 [Continued from Vol. XXVIII., page 255.) 



August was not a favourable month for collecting, although the 

 season was at its height, but the weather was stormy and windy most 

 of the time, and certain other activities claimed time and energy till 

 collecting days were over. 



Early in the month, sweeping in some scanty herbage left by the 

 side of a nearly dry brook produced Moiioiilistns brnnneus and Tridactijlus 

 variegatuH ; on the 10th, a female Lioc/ri/lhts himacnlatm was brought 

 me as a curiosity; a few minutes sweeping in the same scanty herbage 

 some days later produced four species of Manfcids, Mantis relif/iosa, Iris 

 oratoria, Parameles sp., and Fjmpnua sp., the latter two immature. 

 The same evening the Saga laid four more eggs ; towards the end of 

 , the month, on returning from a long trek, I found her dead in her 

 cage ; she had passed away from starvation, neglect, and oviposition 

 combined, and perhaps a little old age ; I am sorry to say that I even 

 neglected her carcase afterwards, and now, instead of a handsome 

 museum specimen, I have but a distorted and discoloured relic of this 

 striking creature. From the sharply raised edges of the elytra of the 

 male, I believe this to be Saga vittata, F. de W. About the same time, 

 I heard from Dr. Forelli, from Turin, that the specimens which I had 

 sent him, provisionally referred to as Gampsodeis sp., and Glyphanns 

 sp., has been identified by Professor E. Giglio-Tos as G. ahbreviatm, 

 Br., and 6^. heldreichi, Br., respectively, both described in Brunner's 

 " Prodromus," and noted only from Macedonia, Neither have been 

 recorded since, so far as I can recall. The Gampsocleis has been 

 referred to earlier in these notes ; it is extremely abundant all over the 

 neighbourhood, and I found it in several other localities in different 

 parts of Macedonia, on occasions of various journeys. 



Late in August I found Gavqisocleis abbreviatits, and two un- 

 determined species of Decticids in the Galeko valley, and was interested 

 to find another Dinarchm dasypn.s there as late as August 20th. A day 

 or two later I heard his stridulation at a considerable altitude in the 

 mountain country at the back of Salonika, shewing that it is not, as I 

 had at first suspected, confined to the plains. 



In September I was able to do little collecting ; in the Galeko 

 valley I found some Decticids, referable, I think, to Anterastes, Amele^ 

 decolor, Charp., adult, and a Parameles with pointed eyes ; Acrida nasuta 

 L., abundant now everywhere, and also Oaloptenns italicus ; a single 

 Hololampra marginata, Schreb., and one male Euprepocnemis plorans, 

 Charp. 



In October, between 5th and 10th, strolling over the plain near 

 Aivatli, I noted Mogoplistus brnnneus, Platycleis intermedia (?), Mantis 

 religiosa, Empusa sp. (nymph), Omocestas petraeiis, 0. haemorrhoidalis, 

 Charp., Epacromia strepens, Pabr, (common), Acrida nasuta, L., and 

 Platyphyma giornae, Eossi, abundant, Oedipoda caernlescens, L., very 

 common. Earwigs now began to appear, but only Forficula auricularia ; 

 (macrolabrous males quite common.) 



At the end of October I picked up Lahidura riparia, L,, in the docks 

 at Salonika, A few days later found me on the coast to the east of 

 March 15th, 1917. 



