84 mtrnsH ORTHOPTERA. 



away into the nearest hiding-place. The females were 

 perhaps rather more common than the males, and many 

 examples of both sexes were dark, especially in the legs. 

 They were very soft and tender and soon succumbed in 

 the cyanide-bottle. Sandy ground, and especially sand 

 hills near the coast and those covered with marrma- 

 grass, seem to suit these little cockroaches; but they 

 are often found on heather and other low herbage, or 

 on the ground in healthy spots. From the herbage 

 they may be obtained with the sweeping-net. Being 

 so lively in their movements and at the same time so 

 delicate, they are easily damaged when collected by 

 hand from the ground. They come to the entomo- 

 logist's " sugar." Porritt found them under old bark 

 and rotten wood on posts adjoining the golf-links at 

 Churston in Devon, and I met with them myself on 

 one occasion, when breaking up a decayed tree-stump 

 by the side of Beaulieu River in the New Forest. On 

 another occasion, 21 August 1.910, at Holm Hill, also 

 in the New Forest, when breaking up and examining 

 the trunk of a small dead pine that had been burnt in 

 a heath-fire, I met with two or three specimens of 

 E. panzeri. At the same time a centipede (Scolopendra) 

 was captured, holding one of these cockroaches, which 

 apparently it had just caught. Though not dead, the 

 cockroach moved but little : possibly the centipede 

 may have paralysed it. While I watched, the centi- 

 pede seemed to be using its poison-jaws much as if 

 they were legs. The cockroach was held beneath the 

 captor's body by several of the anterior pairs of legs, 

 ventral surface upwards ; I presume in order that the 

 softer parts of its prey might more easily be devoured. 

 The centipede seemed distressed because it could not 

 hide, but nevertheless fed greedily on the cockroach, 

 sometimes waving its antennas vigorously. The centi- 

 pede was livid pink in colour, a rather small species, 

 or perhaps the young of a larger kind. I have also 

 found E. panzeri hiding under the coping of the brick 

 wall of a railway bridge in the New Forest. 



