28 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



-Braid and Blackford Hills, Edinburgh ; Pentland Hills, at 

 Boghall and Glencorse ; Kirknewton, Elvanfoot, Aberfoyle, 

 Falkland, and Blair Atholl. 



Stenobothrus rufipes (Zett.). I have not yet taken this form in Scot- 

 land, but it is recorded by Mr. M. Burr from Rannoch in 

 Perthshire (" British Orthoptera," 1897, p. 36). Mr. Burr writes 

 me that he thinks Mr. C. W. Dale was his authority for this 

 locality. According to Eland Shaw (' Synopsis of Brit. Orthop.,' 

 "Ent. Mo. Mag.," 1889-90) S. mfipes should be looked for on 

 open heathy spaces in or adjoining woods. 



Stenobothrus bicolor (Charp.). Very common on the sea-banks, links, 

 and coast sand-hills along the east side of Scotland, and doubt- 

 less on the west too. My specimens are from Burnmouth, 

 Dunbar, North Berwick, Gullane, and Luffness Links (type and 

 var. furpurascens), Port Seton, Kinghorn, and Tentsmuir. 



Stenobothrus parallelus (Zett. ). I have taken this form near West 

 Linton, and in September last I found it fairly common in a 

 damp meadow at Elvanfoot, Lanarkshire. 



Gomphocerus maculafus, Thunb. Widely distributed and not un- 

 common, occurring both on the coast and inland : a bare spot 

 on a railway or other bank is, according to my experience, a 

 favourite habitat. My localities for it are as follows : Dunbar, 

 Luffness, and Aberlady, Boghall (at foot of the Pentland Hills), 

 Peebles (Rev. A. Thornley, August 1900), North Queensferry, 

 Pettycur, Thornton, Falkland, Glen Farg, and Aberfoyle. 



Pachytylus migratorius (Linn.). At long intervals, small nights, or 

 portions of flights, of locusts reach the east coast of Scotland. 

 In August and September 1846 many were noticed in various 

 parts along the coast of Aberdeen and Kincardine (MacGillivray's 

 "Natural History of Deeside," 185 5, p. 447); and I find from the 

 minutes of the Royal Physical Society, that in March 1851 Dr. 

 J. A. Smith mentioned the occurrence of one at Longformacus, 

 Berwickshire. In the autumn of 1880 a sprinkling from another 

 flight reached us. The occurrences were mostly in the Border 

 counties, namely : two at Lamberton, 3131 August; three at 

 Hawick, September; one on Mertoun estate, 23rd September; 

 one, Cessford, near Kelso, 28th September; and several others 

 heard of but not recorded. On 7th September one was taken 

 in a cornfield on Caledonia farm, near Juniper Green, a few 

 miles west of Edinburgh ; and a few had even reached Caithness 

 and the Orkneys, one being found near Wick in the end of 

 August, and three on South Ronaldshay in September. Dr. 

 Hardy, who collected these records and published them in the 

 " Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club " (vol. ix. 

 PP- 378-379), states that he examined one of the specimens of 



