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quarry west of Slateford, near Edinburgh : on 20 July they 

 were again heard. AY. Evans then visited the place and 

 found the insects quite numerous,, and at all stages from 

 newly-hatched young to full-sized adults. They were living 

 under a layer of rubbish that had from time to time been 

 deposited in the quarry. No doubt the crickets had been 

 introduced with some of this rubbish. 



iSibbald (1684) gave "Grill us Focarius" (presumably G-. 

 domesticns] as a Scotch insect; C. Stewart (1809) states that 

 it was to be found in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh ; 

 (r. Don (1813) says,, speaking of Forfarshire, that it was 

 sometimes found near bakers' ovens, but rare. W. Evans 

 (Jan. 1901) says : 



" The house cricket is still to be got about bakers' ovens 

 in Edinburgh and other towns, but so far as I can learn it is 

 seldom found in dwelling-houses now. My specimens were 



taken in a bakehouse in the Xewingrton. district of Edinburgh 



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in 1886. Mr. R. Service tells me there are plenty in Dumfries, 

 and Mr. G. Bolam says it occurs in Berwick-on-Tweed, but is 

 not very numerous." 



IRELAND.- -Donegal : Coolmore (fide Kemp). Fermanagh: 

 Belleisle (fide Kemp). Kerry: Valencia (Praeger). Mayo; 

 Clare Island (Praeger). 



CASUAL CRICKETS. 



Homcegryllus reticulatus Fabr. -A female was found, 18 Oct. 1898, at 

 Kew Gardens in a case from the Belgian Congo State. 



Gryllodes (probably hebraeus Saussure) . Several were taken by G. 

 Massie in the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew Gardens. Apparently they 

 were breeding there. 



Gryllodes sp. One was found at Kew Gardens in a Wardian case 

 from Calcutta in 1899. 



Gryllacris sp. A specimen was found on Nepenthes in propagating 

 pits at Kew Gardens, 6 October 1897. 



Gryllus bimaculatus de Geer. One was found at the Liverpool Docks 

 in a fruit cargo from Spain (Sopp) ; one, introduced by shipping to 

 Deptford, shown at S. Lond. Ent. and Nat. Hist. Soc. by H. Moore, 

 24 April 1913 



Myrmecophila acervorum Panz. Westwood recorded this insect as 

 having been, taken by Mr. Hope in moss in Archdeacon's Copse near 

 Netley in Shropshire. Further evidence, however, is necessary to confirm 

 it as British. Wasmann records it from North and Central Europe. 

 It lives in ants' nests and therefore coiild scarcely be a casual. There 

 is no reason why it should not be a British insect, as it would easily 

 escape notice, being but 3*5 mm. long and affecting so retired a habitat. 

 It has been found with Formica fusca, F. sanguinea, Lasius niger, 

 L. alienus, ^lyrmica l&vinodis. and Tetramorium csespitium. 



((Ecanthus pellucens Scop. One was supposed to have been taken by 

 Ha worth, near Halvergate in Norfolk. Westwood, however, after 

 purchasing his cabinet, said that the insect had been misnamed. It 

 appears now to be lost.) 



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