l!-_!0 1MMTI.SH ORTHOPTKHA. 



is a spot of no great extent by the side of one of a 

 string of ponds on Bookham Common in Surrey. On 

 one occasion I brought home alive two nymphs and 

 i liree imagines from this place. It was on the 9th of 

 September ; and on the morning of the 14th one nymph 

 was found to have cast its skin and become a mature 

 female, and judging by its appearance the change had 

 occurred but a short time before the imao'o was noticed. 



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These were fed on grass. Several examples put into 

 a laurel-bottle, with perhaps a spot or two of benzine, 

 were of a brilliant crimson colour when removed a day 

 or two later, and this tint to some extent they retained 

 when dry. 



DISTRIBUTION.- -6r. rufus seems to be generally dis- 

 tributed in northern and central Europe, it having 

 been recorded from England, Belgium, France, Scan- 

 dinavia, Lapland, and Italy at least. Siberia has also 

 been o*iven as a localitv. 



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BRITISH LOCALITIES. 



This grasshopper is not common with us ; in fact it has 

 been recorded from seven English counties only. 



ENGLAND. Berks: (Hamm). Devon: Wembury and Bolt 

 Head (Bignell) Dawlish and sandhills at Exmouth (Parfitt). 

 Gloucestershire: Colesbourne (Edwards). Hants: C. W. Dale 

 says his father took it at Lyndhurst in the New Forest in 

 1827 and 1830. I have not met with it in the Forest myself. 

 Kent : Burr reported it from Folkestone Warren, but said it 

 seemed to have disappeared on a later occasion ; Maidstone 

 (Shaw); Sheppey (Burr). Surrey: Bookham Common, the 

 Sheepleas at Horsley, and between Denbies and Pickett's 

 Hole (Lucas) ; Compton (Edwards) ; Leatherhead (Burr) ; 

 Boxhill (Briggs) Eeigate (Billups) ; Redhill (Frisby) Colley 

 Hill, Dorking, and Buckland (Chapman) ; Battersea Fields 

 early in the 19th century by Samouelle (C. W. Dale) ; Oxshott 

 (Burr; but T have not met with it there). Dr. Chapman 

 found the species in suitable spots on the southern slope of 

 the North Downs from Reigate to Pickett's Hole, sometimes 

 quite commonly. A Buckland locality, where he knew the 

 species previously but where the insects are scarce, is part of 

 the same slope of the North Downs several miles to the east. 



