b THE ENTOMOLOGIST S EECOED. 



way embankment at Ezbet el Nakhle, on the Cairo-Marg line, f^here 

 Caylusia sp. ? {? canescens or fuhescenH), a Resedaceous plant, had sprung 

 up in considerable quantities. With it flew some worn 8. (jlauconome, 

 a species I had never previously seen in cultivated country. Both 

 species were also noted at Gezira and Maadi, also in the neighbourhood 

 of Caylusia plants. The P. daplidice taken in May, 1917, resembled 

 the Constantinople summer form. Some of those taken in June ap- 

 proached the form raphani. 



Mr. Storey took a very typical P. daplidice var. helUdice, a form 

 hitherto not reported from Egypt, at Dekehla, in February, 1917, as 

 well as a single Anthocharis crameri (belia) var. egyptiaca. AnthocJiaris 

 helemia was out in fair numbers in its usual haunts near Cairo, from 

 November to February, in 1916-1917, but I failed to take any speci- 

 mens of g. aes. (jlauce. But of this species I shall have more to say. 



Notes on British Ectobius, Steph. 



By Capt. MALCOLM BUEE, D.Sc, F.E.S. 



In the A7m. Mus. Zool. Ac. Im.. Sci. of Petrograd, vol. 21 (1916), 

 N. Adelung discusses the genus Ectobius, Steph. 



He begins by subdividing off 'a new subgenus Ectohiella (type E. 

 dusked, Adel., from S. Eussia; the female later described by Holdhaus). 

 In this genus the female has the elytra horny and veinless as in the 

 allied Hololampra. It is in fact a link between Ectobius and 

 Hololampra. 



The author briefly discusses the very distinct i?. nicaeensis, Bris. 

 (S. France), E. albicinctus, Br., and E.p)anzeri, Steph. (W.Europe, in- 

 cluding Britain), but discusses in detail E. lapponiciis, L., E. lividns, 

 Fab., and ft', vittiventris, Costa. 



British orthopterists have probably all discovered that the two 

 former are not nearly so distinct as they would appear from their 

 descriptions, and many are inclined to fuse them all into one. The 

 regretted Blattist, R. Shelford, was a pronounced " lumper " in this 

 respect. 



Adelung, however, who has examined extensive material, is not 

 inclined to agree, but gets out of the difficulty by adopting subspecies, 

 of which he describes a number of new ones. He thus ranges E. j)er- 

 spicillaris, Herbst, (1786), with long elytra in the female and paler in 

 colour than in the type. Then subspecies heviiptera, Fab., with the 

 elytra abbreviated to a marked extent. He confines E. lividus, Fab., 

 to the pale macropterons southern species, and considers all more 

 northerly records under this name, including the British ones, to be 

 really the E. lajyponicus sub. sp. perspicillaris. Incidentally he con- 

 siders E. pallidus, Oliv., identical with this. 



Thus typical E. lapponicus has a monomorphic male but a dimorphic 

 female, the form perspicillaris, paler, with long elytra, and heuiiptera, 

 Fabr., dark, with shortened elytra. All these forms are familiar to 

 British orthopterists. 



Adelung then proceeds to describe some new forms of E. lapponicus. 



1. var. burri, Adel., a little smaller than the type, elytra a little 

 shorter in the male and generally longer in the female ; pronotum and 

 elytra greyish, never reddish. Described from Delibat, Hungarj-. 



The author then refers passim to the Balkan form with red prono- 



