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11th, Colias edusa was flying freely on the rocky hillsides at the back 
of Lembet village, and the stones were crowded with a little fluffy 
black moth, folding its wings penthouse fashion, with strongly pecti- 
nate antenne; mauve and yellow crocuses were springing up all around,. 
and the Egyptian Vulture was soaring overhead, while Partridges and 
Crested Larks were beginning to discuss their domestic arrangements 
in the fields. 
But a month of wild weather followed; it was not until March 
19th that I saw the first hibernated grasshopper, the inevitable Hpa- | 
cromia, on the wing; Pieris brassicae was flying, and big ants had made | 
their appearance. Gryllus domesticus was chirping in our field kitchens, | 
and the Stone Curlew giving his weird whistle in the plains around. 
On March 28th a violent blizzard stripped all the fruit trees of their 
blossom, yet two days later I saw one benumbed Swallow. 
By the end of April the weather was milder again, and immature 
dull black crickets, probably G. burdiyalensis, were swarming on the 
banks of the Struma. Fpacromia and Acridium aegyptiun: were flying 
freely. On May 4th, Papilio machaon and P. podalirius, and a hand- 
some Thais, were flying freely, Lycaenids were numerous, and a fairly 
advanced female Poecilimon was picked up near Deve Kran. On the 
26th, among the thorn thickets and glades on the north side of Lake 
Beshik, Thais and Limenitis camilla were observed; the delicate 
Nemoptera coa, apparently a prey for all raptorial insects, was flutter- 
ing helplessly about, and huge horse-flies with great emerald-green | 
eyes, pestered our animals. On an excursion for a few days to the | 
monasteries on Mt. Athos, I was struck by the richness of plant-life, 
but by the apparent poverty of the fauna; I noticed no Orthoptera, 
and practically no Lepidoptera, except a couple of Gonepteryx 
cleopatra. 
On June 10th, Glyphanus heldreichi, Br., was mature at Mikra. On 
the 18th there were clouds of immature Cidipodids and Acridiids on 
the rocky hills between Lembet and Derbend, and I saw the richly 
contrasted black and yellow Ascalaphus kolyvanensis dash past; in a 
mulberry orchard at Derbend there was a colony of Olynthoscelis ; I 
took an adult male, which seems to be (. chabrieri or else one of the 
closely related species. I had previously been struck by the scarcity of 
this genus here, for it is abundantly represented in the more northern 
Balkan countries, and in past years I have taken several species in 
Wallachia, Hercegovina, Montenegro, and Dalmatia. On June 4th, 
Mr. F. H. Wolley-Dod called, and we climbed together to the top of a 
jagged peak in the neighbourhood of my camp, where we saw several 
Melanargia, the first which he had observed out here. Glyphanus was 
common, but all specimens from the rocks were of a slaty-blue colour, 
quite different from the brown ones from the sandy plains; perhaps 
this is Brunner’s second species. Arcyptera flavicosta was freshly 
adult, as also the purely Macedonian Gampsocleis abbreviatus, Br., an 
active and ferocious Decticid, which has been referred to in previous 
notes in these pages. The red-winged form of Celes variabilis was 
numerous, and Platycleis, of the P. grisea group was swarming, 
probably representatives of several species. Decticus albifrons is a very 
conspicuous insect out here, his loud and self-asserting stridulating 
calling attention to himself on all sides in dry grass and scrub. On 
June 28rd Captain Campbell, R.A.M.C., brought me a fine series of 
