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V. Includes (a) the Iberian Peninsula. (b) Italy (south of Rome), with Sicily. 
(c) Epirus, Greece (with Crete). 
Now a careful consideration leads me to think that this arrange- 
ment could advantageously be modified. I would unite zones III and 
IV, modifying their boundaries, and would add a further zone, including 
Morocco, Algeria, and Asia Minor, and in this zone the southern half of 
Spain would be included. My suggested arrangement therefore would 
stand thus: 
I. The northern zone. Identical with the zone I of Brunner. 
II. The north central zone. This would include Ireland and England, the Low 
Countries, Prussia, Saxony, Poland and central Russia, the same as Brunner’s, but 
including the northern part of France down to Paris, and taking a further slice from 
south Germany. 
III. The south central zone. This would be divided into provinces, as follows: 
(a) France, south of Paris, and eastwards to Budapest. (b) The extreme south 
of France, with northern Italy, as far east as Trieste. Hungary, Transsylvania, 
Moldavia, and Bosnia, possibly including also Servia. (d) South Russia. 
IV. The southern zone, divided as follows: (a) The Iberian Peninsula, except- 
ing the extreme south, Andalusia. (b) The southern half of Italy. (c) Herce- 
govina, northern Macedonia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, and north Turkey to Constanti- 
nople. (d) Greece. (e) Northern part of Asia Minor. 
V. The north African zone with: (a) Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis, with 
Andalusia, and the extreme south of Spain, including probably also Sicily, and 
perhaps even Sardinia. (b) Syria and Cyprus. (c) Southern part of Asia Minor. 
Such an attempt can at best but be provisional, but several con- 
siderations have led me to incline to a modification of Brunner’s 
arrangement. In the first place, the river Narenta marks a contrast 
between the faunas of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Bosnia is distinetly 
central European, while Hercegovina is as distinctly meridional. The 
faunas of Bosnia and south Hungary are not sufficiently distinct to 
warrant a separation into different zones, and Servia may haye to be 
included with them. In spite of the Danube forming apparently a 
good natural frontier, the fauna of Wallachia is essentially meridional, 
and has strong similarity with that of Asia Minor, as shown by the 
occurrence of certain forms of Sophya, Callimenus. The extreme north 
of Spain, in spite of the Pyrenees, may be united with southern France, 
but the fauna of the extreme south of Spain is very distinct from that 
of the north; it has exceedingly well-marked affinities with that of the 
adjacent part of north Africa. This is shown by the distribution of 
the genus Hphippigera, which is very strongly represented in southern 
Spain andin Algeria. The faunas of the two northern zones are not 
sufficiently rich, from a point of view of the Orthoptera occurring 
there, to justify a subdivision into smaller provinces. 
‘QOTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARVA, &c. 
Ovieosition oF DasycrRA SULPHURELLA.—For the last two seasons I 
haye noticed a colony of Dasycera sulphurella in some old timber lying 
in a yard in Chiswick. Though this insect is very common perhaps a 
few notes on this colony, which I am sorry to say is now destroyed, 
may not be without interest. I noticed the first specimen in 1898, on 
May 16th, lying with wings outspread, in rain water which had col- 
lected on the top of acask. May 28rd I saw one at rest on the timber 
and noticed numerous holes in the wood. ‘This species usually rests 
something in the manner of a Coleophorid, with the antenne extended 
in the form of the letter V. On June 7th three or four moths were 
