METR10PTERA ALBOPUNCTATA. 161 



This is a very active creature, which when disturbed 

 tries to hide amongst the rough vegetation, where it is 

 not easily found, for its colouring assimilates extremely 

 well with such surroundings. Burr found If. albo- 

 punctata easy to keep in confinement, and that it ate 

 flies greedily. In 1896 he remarked that he had 

 never heard the species chirp. On the surface of soft 

 sand it is almost helpless, leaping apparently being 

 impossible. 



DISTRIBUTION.- -This Locustid is found practically 

 throughout Europe- -England, Holland, Belgium, 

 France, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, and 

 Montenegro at the least- -as well as in Asia Minor, 

 Syria, the Caucasus, and Madeira. 



BRITISH LOCALITIES. 



M. albopunctata occurs in all the counties of the south coast 

 of England, while there is one record for Suffolk, and, rather 

 strangely, one from the inland county of Derby. Records are : 



ENGLAND. Cornwall : Tregantle near Plymouth (Bracken) ; 

 Land's End (Burr}; common at Fowey (Stoicell). Devon: 

 Torquay, Whitsancls near Plymouth, and one at Braunton 

 Burrows (Bracken) ; Dartmouth (Eddvten) ; Dawlish (Bab- 

 Line/ton Stephens' Illus.). Dorset : Chapman's Pool, and 

 coast between Lul worth and Wey mouth (Lucas) ; Charmouth 

 (Burr); Isle of Portland (C. IF. Dale). Hants: Coast near 

 Milton, and near Mudeford (Lucas) ; Barton (Edwards) ; 

 Hayling Island, Southsea, and Southampton (Burr). Isle of 

 Wight : Compton Bay (Porritt) ; common at the Undercliff 

 and Blackgang (Burr). Sussex : Southwick Beach (Morley) ; 

 Hastings, on the hill above the town (Saunders). Kent : 

 Folkestone (Brlggs and Burr) ; Deal and Sandwich Bay 

 (Burr) ; St. Margaret's Bay (Chitty) ; beneath cliffs at 

 Dover (Stephens). Suffolk: Colchester (Hancood). Derby- 

 shire : Near Derby : specimens now in Derby Museum (Pullen)* 



2. Metrioptera brachyptera Linn. 

 (Plate XIV, fig. 7 ; PL XVI, fig. 2.) 



brachypterus LINN. Faun. Suec. (ed. 2), p. 237, 



11.868 1761Gryllus. 



brachyptera DE GEER Mem. Ins. iii, pp. 433- 



434, n. 4, pi. xxii, ff. 2, 3 . . 1773 Locusta. 



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