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this flight "and ascertained that it was correctly determined." 

 The latest occurrence I know of is that of a specimen caught 

 in a cornfield near Longhaven, on the Aberdeenshire coast, 2nd 

 October 1897, and recorded, after being shown to Professor 

 Trail, by Mr. J. Davidson in this magazine (1898, p. 55). 



The above are all recorded under the specific name of 

 migratorius, but it is not unlikely that some of them were the 

 closely allied P. cinerascens (Fabr.), to which Mr. R. M'Lachlan 

 and others think it probable the greater part of the " migratory 

 locusts " taken in Britain belong. 



Tettix bipunctatus (Linn.). This, the smallest of our "Grasshoppers," 

 is widely distributed and not uncommon, except in the Lowlands, 

 where it is seldom met with. It hibernates, and from spring to 

 autumn may be found on bare sunny spots on heathery banks. 

 It was recorded from Forfarshire by Don in 1813, and thirty 

 years ago Buchanan-White recorded it, under the name of T. 

 Schrankii, from Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, and Kirkcudbright- 

 shire, mentioning at same time a specimen taken by J. Allan 

 Harker " in the west of Scotland" ("Ent. Mo. Mag.," viii. p. 15). 

 It has also been taken in the west of Scotland by P. Cameron 

 ("Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow," ii. p. 209). My specimens, 

 which are nearly all females, are from the following localities : 

 Aberfoyle (23rd April 1896, nth September 1897, and larvae, 

 30th July 1900), Loch Chon (27th April 1896), Blair Atholl 

 (September 1898), Peaton, Loch Long (2nd July 1900), and 

 on railway bank near Thornton, Fife (5th May and i5th 

 August 1900, 2 cs.) 



Grylhts doincsticits, Linn. --The House Cricket is still to be got 

 about bakers' ovens in Edinburgh and other towns, but so far 

 as I can learn it is seldom found in dwelling-houses now. My 

 specimens were taken in a bakehouse in the Newington district 

 of Edinburgh in 1886. Mr. R. Service tells me there are 

 plenty in Dumfries, and Mr. G. Bolam says it occurs in 

 Berwick-on-Tweed, but is not very numerous. 



Let me now call attention to three old lists in which there are a 

 number of interesting entries, some of them, however, so unexpected 

 as to be almost incredible. 



In Sibbald's ' Historia Animalium in Scotia' ("Scotia Illustrata," 

 1684) we find, on pages 31 and 37, the following : 



Gryllus, the Grasshopper. 

 Gryllotalpa, the Mole, or Fen Cricket. 



Blatta, the Moth-Fly. [Assuming that this was the Cockroach, 

 the name "Moth-Fly" is curious.] 



Grilhts Focarius \_i.e. Cricket of the hearth, I presume]. 



