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be a sign of the "teneral" condition in imago, as well 

 as in nymph. Porritt mentions the green tint of 

 specimens he took at Trusthorpe in 1912, and this 

 may perhaps have been due to retarded colour-change 

 owing to the unsummerlike weather of that year. 

 Guermonprez showed Burr a very young Locustid 

 nymph from Par in Cornwall. The pale border showed 

 up distinctly, but the pale border is more conspicuous 

 in M. albopunctata in the nymph al stage, and I believe 

 this is the case in M. brachi/ptera also. It would, 

 therefore, be unwise to assign to this species all 

 nymphs with pale border all round the flaps of the 

 pronotum. 



DATE.- -It may safely be assumed that the eggs laid 

 in the autumn hatch in the following spring. Nymphs 

 have been observed on 24 June (Harwood) ; and a 

 female, still not adult, was taken by A. Luvoni on 

 28 August. H. Campion records imagines on 21 July, 

 and the capture of two males on 22 September. One 

 of these last survived in captivity till 28 September 

 and the other till 12 October. 



HABITS, ETC.- -So few are the known localities for 

 this grasshopper in England, that it is not easy, to say 

 exactly what its predilections are as regards a suitable 

 haunt. One of its known habitats is amongst coarse 

 grass on sandhills (Porritt) ; another is amongst long 

 grass at the foot of a sea-wall (Soutli) ; a reed-patch 

 on the shore of the Thames estuary (West) is a 

 third ; while a fourth is a sunny, grassy hill-side, 

 overgrown with thistles, ragwort, and other plants 

 (Campion). Burr considers rank vegetation in damp 

 fields, and herbage, favourite spots for the species. 

 Campion has kept both males and females alive in 

 captivity for two or three weeks, feeding them on fresh 

 grass, of which they ate greedily while it remained 

 fresh. All the specimens that he had under observation 

 were kept indoors in large dry fish-globes. More than 

 once he found that dead, or dying, examples were 

 partly eaten by their companions. This cannibalistic 



