80 BRITISH ORTHOPTEEA. 



DATE. --Records of captures that have come under 

 my notice extend from the 17th of June till the 26th 

 of September ; but August and September seem to be 

 the best months in which to obtain imagines. Pre- 

 sumably this species passes the winter in the same 

 way as the other two British species of Ectobius, what- 

 ever that may be- -as imagines seems most reasonable. 



HABITS, ETC.- -Unfortunately little has been observed 

 in Britain in connection with the habits and life- 

 history of this cockroach- -very little in fact with 

 regard to any of our Ectobii. It has been obtained 

 from oak and Scotch-fir (Milton) ; on sand-dunes and 

 amongst bracken (Buxton) ; on the entomologist's 

 " sugar ' ' at Studland in Dorset (Button) ; under dead 

 leaves in the New Forest in September (Eland Shaw) ; 

 flying actively in hot sunshine on Wrotham Down in 

 Kent (Buxton). 



DISTRIBUTION.- -E. perspicillaris is widely distributed 

 in central and southern Europe, but is not very 

 common towards the north, its place being taken 

 apparently by E. lapponicus. It has been found at least 

 in the south of England, in Holland, Belgium, France, 

 Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Dalmatia, and Algeria. 



BEITISH LOCALITIES. 



Apparently this cockroach is not frequent in England, and 

 of the records that have been made over a considerable 

 number of years one would like to feel certain that all refer 

 without doubt to this species and never to E. lapponicus, for 

 pale examples of the latter might quite easily be mistaken for 

 darker examples of the former if indeed the species are 

 distinct. The only specimens I possess were taken in the 

 district between Leatherhead and Dorking in Surrey. 



Eecords are : 



ENGLAND. Devon: var. pallidus (Stephens). Dorset: 

 Lulworth Cove, 18 Sept. (F. W. Edwards) Studland, 5 July 

 (Buxton) ; Perndown, near Wimborne Minster (Sopp) ; 

 Portland (C. W. Dale)- Glanvilles Wootton (J. C. Dale). 

 Hants : Bournemouth, one (Harwood) New Forest (Eland 

 Shaw); var. pallidus, New Forest (Stephens). Sussex; 



