IN MAOEDONIA IN 1917. 65. 
pine woods, not rare; P. napi g.a. napaeac, Colias edusa, Gonepterya 
cleopatra, Pyrameis cardui, P. atalanta (seen in the town), Polygonia 
egea (one'seen in the Marseilles suburbs), Pararge megera, Satyrus circe, 
a few very large specimens; S. alcyone, just emerging ; Hipparchia 
briseis, fresh and frequent, males smaller than the Sea of Marmora race, 
both female forms occurring; H. semele, just emerging, large and 
brightly coloured ; H’pinephele jurtina, southern in facies ; H. pasiphae, 
a few worn specimens: H. ida, abundant and small; Coenonympha 
dorus, abundant, but going over. Total 21 species. 
Malta.—Here, on May 7th, 1917, I saw Pieris. brassicae, P. rapae, 
Pontia daplidice and Colias edusa with the inevitable Pyrameis cardut. 
The fine dragonfly, Anaw imperator, was flying round some tanks in a 
garden near the tunnel which precedes the last station on the Malta 
Railway. 
In Macedonia in 1917. 
By Cart. MALCOLM BURR, D.Sc., F.E.S.. 
The first entomological observations for the year were in Greeces 
and are extremely meagre ; walking over the Acropolis, at Athens, on 
January 27th, I saw a small Fritillary, and a single Hpacromia thalas- 
stna. More interesting, that early in March I came across freshly 
hatched specimens of Locusta viridissima at Corinth; the weather was 
far from mild, but this was afull month before I should have expected 
them at this latitude. 
The first of May found me enjoying summer weather on the Struma. 
front ; the rocks were a mass of a mauve Cistus, and the valley ablaze 
with spring flowers of every kind and colour, in rank luxuriant growth; 
last year’s trenches were hidden by the young vegetation, and fields of 
Opium poppies, abandoned by the population, gave a mass of flowers to. 
adorn the messes. The gorgeous bee-eater was already flashing in the 
sun, wheatears and warblers abounded, and the clumsy but brilliant 
roller, called by the Serbs the ‘stinking crow,’’ was very much in 
evidence. Our common British grasshoppers, Omocestus viridulus and 
the universal Stawroderus bicolor, were already in full buzz. Bright 
_ green Cetonias were flying around, and the commonest butterflies were 
a Wood White, the two Swallow-tails, and worn Pyrameis cardut. 
Within a week Decticus verrucivorus, which is very common, had already 
reached the nymph stage; in the south of England this species would 
hardly yet be hatched. Acridiwm aegyptiwm was common, and the two 
red-winged species of Acrotylus. The yellow-winged A. lonyipes, Charp., 
I only once came across out here, a single specimen on the beach on 
the Gulf of Orfano, in the beginning of November in the previous year. 
Cuckoos, nightingales, and whitethroats were in full song, and night- 
jars were whirring in the valley, although there was no timber there. 
I found dead teazle-heads full of freshly hatched macrolabious For/i- 
cula auricularia, L., on May 10th, but saw no other earwigs this year 
except the usual Labia minor, L., which flew to light in numbers in 
the middle of the summer. On May 28rd I heard the first chirp of 
Decticus verrucivorus, took a female nymph of Glyphanus obtusus, and 
saw the first adult Dinarchus dasypus, lig. This portly creature is a 
great favourite in Macedonia ; his insistent stridulation, which is loud 
and prolonged, his startling black and bronze coloration, and his cor- 
