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sand-dunes at Braunton Burrows, which he contrasts 

 with a dark specimen from cliffs in another locality. 

 Edelsten notes a female at Dartmouth with the top of 

 its head and the plate on the thorax quite red, and I 

 have taken a female with the dorsal surface of head and 

 thorax rust-coloured. If a series of British examples 

 is examined a little variation in the length of the 

 elytra will be noticed. The species with us, however, 

 does not appear to vary to any extent. 



DATE.- -Eggs are laid in the autumn and hatch in 

 the spring. Nymphs are found in the early summer 

 and imagines in the late summer and autumn. 

 Stephens mentions the occurrence of specimens at 

 Dover at the end of July, but does not say whether 

 they were mature or not. Judging by the records 

 August and September seem to be the best months for 

 imagines, though they may live on into October, 

 Morley having met with the species in Sussex on the 

 llth of that month in 1894. Nymphs sometimes 

 occur very late : I took one on 26 August 1903 on the 

 Hampshire coast, while Burr found female nymphs as 

 late as 8 September in 1896, at Folkestone Warren. 



HABITS.--III England this grasshopper seems to have 

 a liking for barren uncultivated spots especially on a 

 chalky hillside ; but it is not confined to such places, 

 being found on cliffs on sandy soil near Plymouth, and 

 on sand-dunes at Sandwich, while Burr found it 

 plentiful on the outcrop of the Greensand at Compton 

 Bay in the Isle of Wight. It has been spoken of more 

 than once as connected with the rest-harrow (Ononis 

 spinosa Linn.) ; but it remains to be seen whether or not 

 this is an accidental association. Amongst rough 

 herbage on a cliff-side in the south of England M. 

 albopunciata may be expected. I have once or twice 

 noticed that it occurred on a damp clayey spot, where 

 the surface of the cliff was breaking away or sliding 

 downwards. Morley found it on plants on the Sussex 

 coast. It has been taken at " sugar ' -at Torquay 

 (Hamm and Bracken) and at Dartmouth (Edelsten). 



