IMMTISH ORTHOFTKRA. 



which was recorded by Ridley in January 1884. In July 

 1895 it occurred in abundance in the West of Ireland, as 

 recorded in the ' Irish Naturalist/ vol. iv, pp. 228 and 258, 

 by M. G. H. Carpenter; while in September of the same 

 \ oar B. G. Rye took the species in Norfolk in some numbers 

 by sweeping the bog-myrtle (Myrica gale). The next year 

 \\ r . Jeffreys took several in a bog a few miles from Lyndhurst 

 in the New Forest ; and he found it also in another spot on 

 the same side of the Forest (in litt. 1897). In the beginning 

 nf August 1898 J. J. F.X. King and myself found the species 

 fairly common in two bogs 011 the other side of the Forest, 

 hi that season, which was a rather late one, it commenced to 

 appear in the imaginal form just about the beginning of 

 August. As the days went on it seemed to increase in 

 numbers, but nymphs were still taken. Since 1898 the species 

 lias rewarded my search in a number of parts of the Forest, 

 and it may safely be said that it is plentiful in that district, 

 occurring in most bogs that are not quite small. Perhaps 

 Paget's "Locustaflavipes Belton Bog, common," is this species 

 (fide Morley). F. Balfour-Browne reports it for Norfolk in 

 Sutton and Barton Parishes as well as in Catford,in September, 

 all the places being in the Ant valley : J. Edwards reports it 

 for Horning, and F. H. Haines from Morden in Dorset. 



S. W. Kemp found, in the Trinity Coll. Collection in Dublin, 

 specimens from Oughtered and Recess (Co. Galway) and 

 from Killarney (Co. Kerry)., and two specimens in Haliday's 

 Collection probably from Kerry or Galway: Another locality 

 isFoxford, Co. Mayo (British Museum). 



C. Stewart in a " List of Insects found in the neighbourhood 

 of Edinburgh," 1809, gives Gryllus grossus ; and in G. Don's 

 'Account of the Plants and Animals of the County of Forfar/ 

 1813, Gryllus grossus also occurs. These records, however, 

 are not sufficient to warrant our claiming it as a Scotch insect 

 though there is no reason whv it should not occur on boo's in 



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the west. 



Genus 4. STENOBOTHRUS Fiscli. 



Stenobothrus FISCH. Orth. Eur. pp. 296, 313 . 1853. 



In tbe wide sense Stenobothrus may be diagnosed as 

 follows : Foveolse of vertex narrow, somewhat oblong 



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in shape. . mtennaR filiform. Pronotum with one cross- 

 furrow ; median carina distinct, lateral ones straight 



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