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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



to the male, withoat taking any consideration of the appearance of the 

 females, and must therefore, laying due emphasis on the exceedingly 

 large variability of the males in colour and marking, be regarded a& 

 only an aberration." 



(To be continued.) 



Collecting in several places in 19(6=1918. 



By Major P. P. GRAVES, F.E.S. 

 " {Concluded from page 66.) 



I will conclude these notes by giving some brief account of the 

 specimens of Heterocera and of " other orders " taken in South Pales- 

 tine, and by a few corrections and additions to the previous articles 

 under the above title. 



South Palestine. 



Of the Heterocera seen or taken at Umm el Kilab, far the most 

 abundant was Cerocala Hcapidom, -\^h\(ih. literally swarmed from Sep- 

 tember to November. It was not very variable. In October, late in 

 the month, and in November till the weather broke, i.e., about the 

 18th of the month, Thaiimatopoea herculeana var. judaea and Chon- 

 drostega (?) subfasciata occurred in some numbers at light. Amicta 

 febretta was taken sparingly. Melideptria scntosa occurred with C 

 scapidosa, but much less frequently. Pltisia gamma was of course fre- 

 quent. I got very few Craspedia mhiorata in October and early 

 November, and still fewer Rhyacia (Agrotis) ripae in the latter month. 

 Those taken were very pale. Other Heterocera recorded were Euxoa 

 segetiim, E. pierretii, E. tritici, A. yimlon (not uncommon) from late 

 September onwards ; Cardepia irrisor var. deserticola somewhat rare, 

 Athetis clavipalpis [cubicularis) not uncommon in November, FJarias 

 insidana frequent throughout, Thalpochares ostrina not uncommon from 

 September, T. parva much rarer in late October, an Acidalia which 

 may be A. mareotica, and Eupithecia oblongata. 



Further I took Laphijgma exigiia at Der el Belah, in August. Two 

 or three Noctuids taken near Umm el Kilab, in November, have not 

 yet been identified. 



Of the " Micros" I recognised Noctuelia floralis, Cynaeda dentalis, 

 and Ancylolomia palpella. Two other species are reported by the Ento- 

 mological Section, Ministry of Agriculture, Cairo, to be Cornifrons 

 ulcerataUs and Anerastia ablutella. But the great majority of my 

 Micros are now in the hands of Mr. Durrant, and will, I hope, prove 

 interesting. 



Of the "other orders " I should like first to note the unexpected 

 lack of variety of Orthoptera in the veldt. Sphingonotns azurescens and 

 TrnxaUs imguiciilata were taken near Der el Belah, or seen there, not 

 uncommonly in late July* and August. I saw very few grasshoppers 

 near Umui el Kilab, and all I took proved to be the common Galop- 

 temis italicua. Among the Coleoptera taken the following have been 

 identified by Cairo : — Scarites eiirytus, Anthia sexmaculata, Graphipterus 

 serrator and G. rotnndatus, Jiilodis onopordi var. ehrenbergi, Blaps (?) 

 kollari, Ptinus (?) xylopeitha, Macldopis crenatocostata, Aphodiiis lividus, 

 and another thus far unidentified Aphodiiis, Trox grannlipennis with 

 some Carabids, Bostrychids, and a Gonocephalam which are still 

 unidentified. 



