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(lice, worn, also one Coenonynipha pamphibis : Paranje eijeria was 

 getting worn. I have seen no K. eardamincs. I am feeding the ant- 

 lion larvje with small Noctuid larvae ; they draw them down beneath 

 the sand before beginning to devour (?) them. I also captured one 

 large female Spihisoma fuli'jinosa. On March 18th, at Trayas and 

 Mai Infernet, Li. deopatra was abundant, and there were plenty of 

 KiKjLDiia jioli/cJiIoroii. i'ararije ('(jcria, P. uie/jacra, K. cujiheiioides, and 

 Satuniia jiavunia-jiiinor, were frequent. A. belia was seen, and the 

 first two Thais mcdesicastc captured. Macroi/lossa stdlatariun were seen 

 in cup. I captured also two full-grown larva? of Chara.ves jasiiis. 



On ]\Iarcli 17th I came across a beekeeper about to hive a swarm 

 of Ajiis iiu'Uirica : the swarming season here is said to be at the latter 

 end of March and in April, so that this was an early one. Ilis hives, 

 which lasted he said about twenty years, and some of which looked 

 about that age, consisted of the cork taken from the tree in one 

 piece, and closed together again, forming an irregular cylinder, about 

 a foot in diameter and two feet long, closed by a piece of cork at the 

 top, but with the end open, the bottom being placed on the bare 

 ground. This, he said, made their removal to the mountains in sum- 

 mer much easier than if there was a board beneath. August, in the 

 mountains, was the best season, and the honey was taken just after- 

 wards. During winter the bees did nothing, but winter must be short for 

 swarming to take place in the middle of March. His method of hiving 

 the swarm was interesting ; he wore a bee-veil, the swarm being at the 

 top of a branch of an olive tree. He threw a rope over a branch of the 

 tree, and with this slung the hive tolerably near the swarm, the rope 

 being round the middle, so that the hive was horizontal instead of 

 vertical, and with the bottom forming a wide open end. He shook 

 the bees in and then left it for stragglers to follow in, placing it in its 

 proper position later. He had heard of bar- frame hives, but knew 

 nothing of them nor of their working. This station presented some fifty 

 hives, and he had a larger apiary some miles off. I could ascertain 

 nothing about the usual yield of honey. 



On the 20th I made an excursion to the Var with M. Constant. 

 We were too early for the species to be found there in spring. M. 

 Constant used to find here large tracts of uncultivated land that 

 afforded many good species, and so lately as two years ago there were 

 still a few good patches left. Now the whole area is under garden 

 cultivation, and this hunting ground spoiled. The land is most prolific; 

 we saw cauliflowers five feet in circumference and peas eight feet high. 



A comparison with the insects in M. Constant's cabinet shows that 

 the insect recorded {ante, p. 97) as A. taijia, taken at St. Cassien, is 

 really the var. bellczina of that species, and my first E. euphenoides that 

 had also puzzled me, and which I was inclined to consider a hybrid 

 cardcDiiuu's x ciipJioioidcs, is really K. (inoicri. I do not know whether 

 this has been previously recorded from western Europe. 



Migration and Dispersal of Insects: Orthoptera. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 

 {ContiuKi'd fniin p. 93.) 

 The South American S. jxiranensi', to which we have already referred, 

 is a constant inhabitant of the country around the river Plate, where, 



