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iuiinlx>rs amongst the tidal refuse. The 9 ? were in prime condition. They 

 vary much in colour, some being quite pale, and others, through the filling in of 

 the areas on the elytra with the characteristic spots of the genus, very dark, 

 the state of affairs being in fact vex-y similar to what obtains in A. obsoletus, the 

 var. piceus of which could almost be pax'alleled amongst those of A. sejungendus. 

 Some specimens show a slight lioary incrustation like the bloom on a plum. 

 As the food-plant is a very local species, the insect may be expected to be the 

 same, though like the plant, abundant where it occiu's. — E. A. Butler, 

 56, Cecile Park, Crouch End, N.: November 29th, 1911. 



Orthoptera in Devon and Cornwall, 1911. — Sweeping at Widemouth Bay, 

 near Bixde, North Cornwall, during Airgust, proved very successful. Thamno- 

 trizon cinereus, L. (Olyntlioscelis griseo-aptera, De G.), was abundant in thick 

 herbage close to hedges, and Leptophyes punctatissima, B. d'A., still more so in 

 similar conditions. Long series of both Tettix bipunctatus, L., and Tettix suhu- 

 latus, L., were also taken in the short grass of two fields only. They were veiy 

 local and possessed the usixal varieties of colour, from white to almost black. 

 A specimen of T. bipunctatus was taken at Plympton, near Plymouth, early in 

 September. Locusta viridissima, L. was uncommon at Bude. I only took one 

 pair. Stenobothrus hicolor and parallelus were, of course, everywhere. On 

 October 1st Mr. Hodgson, Curator of the Plymouth Museixm, took a fine speci- 

 men of Platycleis grisea, Fabr., at Tregantle, near Plymouth, on the cliffs 

 (sandy soil). The only records for the district are Torquay (at sugar), 1899, 

 and Dawlish. Mr. J. H. Keys lias taken the " wild " cockroach, Ectobia panzeri, 

 Stepli., again this year on the Tregantle and Whitsands cliffs. — C. W. Bracken, 

 B.A., 5, Carfrae Terrace, Plymouth. 



[The following west-country captures of my own may be added : T. cin- 

 ereus, not ixncommonly, near Seaton, in September, 1910, and at Lynmouth, 

 in September, 1907 ; and L. viridissima, at Dawlish, and E. panzeri at Dawlish 

 and Slapton, in August, 1907.— G. C. C.]. 



Sympetrum fonscolombii, Selys, in Scotland. — I see from the report of October 

 meeting of Entomological Sociifty of London, given in the November number of 

 this Magazine (p. 267), that Mr. W. J. Lucas met with this dragon-fly in some 

 nrunbers in the New Forest, Hampshire, during August last. Its simultaneous 

 occurrence in Scotland, as shown by the following records, is a fact of much 

 interest, and proves, I think, that this country has again been visited by part of 

 a migx-atory swarm. The Scottish specimens which I liave to x-ecoi'd ax-e : — (1) 

 a S taken near Aberlady, Haddingtoxishire, on 30th July, by Mr. J. W. Bowhill ; 

 (2) a ? caught by a boy in Edixibvirgh on 11th August ; and (3) a ? captured 

 by myself on the Isle of May, at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, on 17th August. 

 I have shown (1) and (3) to Mr. K. J. Morton, who coxifirms the idexxtification. 

 For the x-ecord of Nximber 2, which is ixx the collection of the Royal Scottish 

 Musexun, I am indebted to Mr. P. H. Grinxshaw. Besides those we secured, 

 others were seen by both Mr. Bowhill and nxyself. — William Evans, Morning- 

 side Park, Edinburgh : December 6th, 1911. 



