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which the hymenopteron escaped. Since this insect 

 passes its life amongst the foliage of large trees, we 

 may take it for granted that their leaves constitute 

 its food. Whether this is so or not, its tastes are 

 not entirely vegetarian, for it is found as a frequent 

 visitor to the entomologist's " sugar." It is carnivorous 

 also on occasion, for, of a pair put into a box without 

 food, the female ate a great part of the male, though 

 whether her companion died first I cannot say. " Beat- 

 ing ' the trees is the best method of procuring 

 specimens. 



DISTRIBUTION.- -In Europe this grasshopper is found 

 from Southern Sweden to beyond the Alps- -Sweden, 

 Holland, Belgium, England, France, Denmark, Switzer- 

 land, Italy, Spain, Tyrol. It apparently does not 

 extend to the East. 



BEITISH LOCALITIES. 



ENGLAND. Bedfordshire : Near Bedford (Porritt). Berk* ; 

 Streatley (Tomliri) neighbourhood of Radley College (Burr). 

 .BwcAtffChesham (Donisthorpe) . Cambridgeshire : Whittlesford 

 (Lamb); Cambridge (Bateson) ; Chippenhaii Fen (Edwards)-, 

 Wicken Fen (Morley) ; West Wickham (Shaw). Cornwall: 

 It can be taken in abundance in August, September, and 

 October in the Priory Gardens, Saltash (on the Cornish side 

 of River Tamar, opposite Devonport), where it is found freely 

 on bay (Bracken) . Devon : Fairly common in woods and 

 generally distributed (Bignell) ; Cann Woods and Shaugh 

 Woods (Bracken) Lynmonth and East Lynn River (Briggs) ; 

 Totnes (Lucas) ; Stoke Woods near Exeter (Roivden) ; 

 near Bideford (Ansorge) ; Torquay and Bampford Speke 

 (Bracken) Nymet Rowland and Chnrston (Porritt). Dorset : 

 Glanvilles Wootton (C. IF. Dale). Essex: Epping Forest 

 (Shaw) ; Epping Forest near Chingford (Campion); They don 

 Bois (Milton); Colchester (Harwood). Hants: New Forest, 

 common (Lucas). I. of Wight : Found commonly by beating 

 at Bordwood near Sandown, and on street lamps in Shanklin 

 (Poole) ; in a house at Newport, and in Marvel Copse (Morey). 

 In October and late into November they often come into 

 houses through the windows : they seem commonest after 

 high wind,, which blows them down from the trees chiefly 



