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"often infesting gardens by the side of canals/' the absence 

 of any confirmatory evidence renders its occurrence very 

 doubtful (Jourdain). Devon: (Stephens). Bignell had seen 

 three found in a potato-patch, which had consumed a great 

 portion of the potato under which they were found in 

 September (Bignell). Rather frequent in the neighbourhood 

 of Exeter ; a few years since (sc. 1882) several were found in. 

 the streets early in the morning (Parfitt). Bracken (1916) 

 seems to write somewhat doubtfully of it as a Devon insect at 

 the present time. Hants : Isle of Wight. Burr states in 

 'The Natural History of the Isle of Wight' (F. Morey, 

 1909) : " Mr. Morey writes me that he has seen specimens 

 which were dug up in a garden at Newport many years ago. 

 Mr. P. Wadham, of Newport, found nine of these insects 

 about six years since when turning over a heap of damp 

 sandy soil in his garden through which flows the stream 

 known as the Lukely. He has also dug out specimens on the 

 banks of the Medina at Snide"; Netley (Briggs) Southamp- 

 ton, a living example exhibited by W. Sharp at Entom. Soc. 

 Lond. 2 Nov. 1887, having between the spines of its hind legs 

 a number of living acari (Sharp) ; Selborne, very common in 

 the time of Gilbert White, about 1789 ; New Forest, Brocken- 

 hurst, and near Ramnor (Lucas). Kent : a living specimen 

 found outside his house in Lower Road, Deptford (no 

 doubt attracted by electric light) exhibited by H. Moore at 

 S. Lond. Ent. and Nat. Hist. Soc. 8 Sept. 1904 (Moore). Lan- 

 cashire : near Manchester (Jacoby). Lincolnshire: Grimsby, 

 July 1902 (Hicks). Norfolk: Stoke Holy Cross (Edwards) 

 Caistor, occasionally (Paget, fide Bloomjield) . Oxon : near 

 Oxford (Shipp). Staffordshire : Taken in gardens about 

 Birmingham (R. Garner's ' History of the County of Stafford/ 

 1844 (teste Jourdain). Surrey ; Churt, 1901 and another in 

 1908 (Dalgliesh) ; one, which flew against Mr. Dalgliesh's 

 face outside his garden-gate at Milford about 9 p.m. 011 3 

 June 1902, and fell down : it was a very fine specimen. 

 Sussex : By Chichester Canal (Anderson). Wilts : Hartmoor 

 near Devizes (Lyle). 



SCOTLAND. Sibbald (1684) gives Gryllotalpa, the Mole, or 

 Fen Cricket as a Scotch insect; G. Don (1913) mentions it 

 for the county of Forfar. W. Evans, however, can find 

 no evidence corroborative of Sibbald and Don's statements. 

 He says further (Jan. 1901) that sixty years ago the Rev. J. 

 Duncan wrote : " The Mole Cricket is unknown in Scotland ' 

 (' Nat. Lib. Entom.' vol. i, 1840, p. 247). It is satisfactory 

 to note that this is no longer true, for in 1899 a single 



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