ST. (OMOCESTUS) RUFIPES. 237 



prevent mistakes. In 0. rnjipe* the angle of the lateral 

 carinse of the pronotnm is less sharply curved than in 

 8. bicolor. 



DATE. --July, August, and September are the best 

 months for the imago ; but it may possibly be mature 

 in June. I have met with nymphs on 11 August in 

 the New Forest. 



HAIHTS, ETC.- -Personally I have had experience of 

 this species only in the New Forest. There it seems 

 to like open healthy or dry ground, especially just 

 outside a wood or plantation, or in a ride or clearing. 

 In captivity it fed on grass, eating along the margin of 

 a leaf. One was thus kept alive for six or seven 

 weeks, dying on or about 14 October. 



DISTRIBUTION.- -This species is considered to be 

 generally distributed over Europe from Sweden to the 

 Mediterranean, its range being similar to that of 

 0. viridulus, but it is less frequent in the north, and 

 does not reach so great an altitude as its cono-ener. 



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It is recorded from England, France, Scandinavia, 

 Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Italy at least. 

 It is also found in Algeria, Asia Minor, and Siberia. 



BRITISH LOCALITIES. 



ENGLAND.- -.Ber&s : Neighbourhood of Radley College (Burr). 

 Cambridgeshire : Wicken (Porritt). Devon: On the coast,, not 

 common (Bignell) ; Lyntoii (Briggs) ; Churston (Porritt) 

 \Voollacombe (Bracken). Gloucestershire: Wot tori (Shaw). 

 Hants : New Forest in many places (Lucas) Bournemouth 

 (Burr). Kent: Deal (Briggs); Herne Bay (Waterhouse, 

 exhibited at Ent. Soc. Lond. 7 Sept, 1887) ; Bromley (Shaw). 

 Lake District : (Porritt). Somerset: Batheaston (Blathwayt). 

 Suffolk : " Broad/' apparently near Barnby, and two doubtful 

 records Beccles and Ipswich District (Morley). Surrey: 

 Leitli Hill (Briggs) ; Boxhill (Burr). Sussex : Abbot's Wood 

 (Porritt) ; Guestling, some years ago (Bloomjield) . Yorkshire : 

 Thome Moor, Sandburn, Castle Howard, and near York 

 (Porritt) ; Strensall Common (fide Sopp). 



WALES. Carnarvonshire : Penmaenmawr (Porritt). 



(Burr says it Las been recorded from Rannocli in Scotland : 

 lie thinks C. W. Dale was his authority.) 



