TETRIX BIPUNOTATUS. 215 



DATE. Probably the eo-o-s are laid about May. The 



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nymph-stage lasts during the early part of the summer, 

 and imao-ines beafin to be found during August. These 



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hibernate and appear again at least as early as March ; 

 possibly they get about in genial weather before that 

 month. Nymphs may be found even after August. 

 On one occasion I saw an imasfo in the New Forest 



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resting on a leaf on 3 September. By its side was the 

 empty skin- -a pale ghostly image of the nymph as 

 these grasshopper sloughs always are. The change 

 had taken place so recently that the imago was 

 scarcely strong enough to leap. 



HABITS, ETC.- -T. bipunctatus is usually found in 

 drier places than its congener. It may be expected in 

 woods amongst dry leaves, amongst short grass in 



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clearings of woods, on moorland and hillside slopes, on 

 sand-hills, etc. Personally I think the most likely spot 

 in which to look for it is a warm margin of a wood, 

 where the soil is only partly covered with vegetation. 

 Such a spot serves to hide it admirably, for it does not 

 jump on to stems of grass or other vegetation, but 

 alights on the ground, where it need scarcely be said 

 that its colouring conceals it effectually. I once saw a 

 specimen swimming in the water standing in a cartrut 

 near Oxshott in Surrey. Presumably it had hopped 

 into the water and was swimming out again. Morley 

 mentions two " flying in sunshine ' at Bentley "Woods 

 in Suffolk. This might be- expected of T. subulatus, 

 but the size of the wings seems to preclude the possi- 

 bility in the case of T. bipunctatus. This grasshopper 

 may be taken by sweeping, presuming it has not taken 

 up its abode where brambles occur, as it so often does. 

 It is not, however, so small as to make stalking and 

 hand-capture a very difficult matter. 



DISTRIBUTION. This Tetrix is found over nearly the 



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whole of Europe, including Lapland, Norway, Holland, 

 Belgium, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy. It 

 also occurs in Asia Minor, Siberia, and Amur. 



