176 BRITISH OETHOPTERA. 



I )a,le told Curtis that the brown form, bingleii Curtis, " was 

 first taken at Goodwin's Croft, near Christchurch, Hampshire, 

 and given to the late Rev. W. Bingley. Dale's female was 

 taken 30th July, 1818, by the side of a barley field near 

 Christchurch, and his male at the same place the 14th of 

 August following/' A male lingleii (probably one of Curtis' 

 types) but of the green form (!) is in the Hope Museum at 

 Oxford (Burr). C. W. Dale speaks of a fiue female (colour 

 not mentioned) taken by his father in the New Forest, 3 July 

 1844. Here I might mention that H. Bath speaks of a 

 var binglii taken in the New Forest in September, 1891. 

 Eland Shaw records two green females taken by H. C.' 

 Phillips at St. Margaret's Bay, Kent, in August 1886, and 

 Bath a green female from Deal in 1889, in which year Burr 

 says two green females were taken at St. Margaret's Bay. 

 Since then Sandison has taken it in the latter locality, and 

 the late Rev. E. N. Bloomfield informed me that Gordon 

 Murray took a green female there in 1900. About 1907 

 Burr discovered a colony at Lydden about four miles from 

 Dover, and gave me two males taken there. In 1913 Porritt 

 found it rare in this locality ..t 



Genus 4. PHASGONURA Stephens. 



Phasgonura STEPH. 111. Brit. Ent. Maud, vi, p. 15 . 1835. 



Tettigonia, part, LINN. Syst. Nat. (ed. x), i, p. 429 . 1758. 



Locusta GEOFFR. Hist. Ins. i, p. 396 . . . 1762, 



Acrida KIRBY Zool. Journ. i, p. 432 . . . . 1825. 



Acrida CURTIS Brit. Ent. ii, pi. Ixxxii and text . . . 1825. 



Conocephalus, part, THUNB. Mem. Acad. Petersb. v, p. 278 . 1815. 



Stephens thus describes the genus : " Body elongate^ 

 stoutish, smooth ; front acuminated between the 

 antennas, the latter longer than the body, with the basal 

 joint very robust and produced within, the second also 

 robust, but much smaller : the remainder extremely 



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minute, and gradually diminishing in breadth to the 

 apex ; eyes large, prominent ; thorax depressed above 

 and flattened behind, where it bears an abbreviated 

 ridge, the sides rather suddenly deflexed, the hinder 

 margin rounded and produced ; elytra considerably 



* Curtis, ' British Entomology/ JS"o. 82, where A. bingleii is beautifully 

 figured. 



t Some of the records of this species are a little confused ; they perhaps 

 require careful sifting, if this is now possible. 



