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in a tin box. The female recovered, and a day or 



. 



two afterwards was found to be quite lively, with the 

 dead body of the male partly devoured. 



DISTRIBUTION. From Lapland in the north to the 

 Alps in the south, and from the west to the Ural 

 Mountains in the east. It has also been found in 

 Amur. 



BRITISH LOCALITIES. 



England is the only part of the British Isles from which 

 J/. brachyptera has been reported. Here in a few counties it 

 is found, these being- usually in the south. It is a local insect, 

 but sometimes common where it occurs. 



ENGLAND.- -Berk*: (Hamm). Buck*: East Burnham 

 Common (Campion). Cornwall: Quintrel! Downs, Newquay 

 (Edwards). Cumberland: Salkeld; not uncommon on one 

 of the low fells in south-east Cumberland on heathy ground 

 (Day). Derbyshire: ? at Repton Shrubs (Brown)*. Devon: 

 Haldon and Woodbury Common (Parfitt). Dorset : Purbeck 

 Heaths (C. W. Dale). Hants: Xew Forest, common (Lucas); 

 Bournemouth (Porritt) ; in numbers (1903) at St. Catherine's 

 Hill at the back of Christchurch (Burr). Kent: Between 

 Wahner and Dover (Lucas) ; Daren th Wood (Stephens) ; 

 Broad water Down, Tunbridge Wells (Gruermonprez) . Norfolk : 

 King's Lynn (Atmore). Surrey: Wisley and Leith Hill 

 ( Briggs), Esher Common, Oxshott Heath, and Woking 

 (Lucas) Witley (Dalgtiesh) ; Frensham Heath (Sopp) ; 

 Ooombe Wood and near Ripley (Stephens). Sussex: Bexhill 

 (Butler) cliffs at Hastings (Guermonprez) ; Ashdown Forest 

 (Burr). Yorkshire: Thorue Moor and Stensall Common 

 (Porritt). 



3. Metrioptera roeselii Hagenbach. 

 (Plate XIV, fig. 9; PL XVI, fig. 1.) 



roeselii HAGENB. Symb. Faun. Ins. Helv. i, 



p. 39, f. 24 . ... 1822 Locust a. 



brevipennis CHARP. Horse Ent. p. 114 . . 1825 Locusta. 

 roeselii STEPH. 111. Br. Ins. Mand. vi, p. 13, 



11. 2 ... 1835 Micropteryx. 



Roeselii BEUNNEK Prod, der Eur. Orth. 



p. 358 .... . l8S'2Platycleis. 



roeselii FINOT Faune de la Fr., Orth. pp. 



205,209 ..... 1889Platycleis. 



