2G0 [November, 



Dccticus verrucivorus, Linn., Forficula lesnei, Finot, and Apterygida alhi- 

 pennis, Meg., in East Kent. — Fi'om September 12th to 22nd last, I spent at 

 Folkestone, in company with Mr. T. A. Lofthouse, of Middlesbrough. My 

 own special object was to take the three Orthoptera : Decticus verrucivorus, 

 Apterygida albipennis, and Forficula lesnei. The very first tap on low plants 

 in the Folkestone Warren, the morning after our arrival, showed several 

 F. lesnei in the umbrella, and we speedily found that the species was very 

 abundant, the common F. auricularia being quite a rarity among them, though 

 we afterwards found that tlie common species was equally abxindant in the 

 evenings on our sugared posts higher up in the Warren, a few lesnei occurring 

 among them. In the afternoon of the same day (the 13th), thanks to Dr. Malcolm 

 Burr, who kindly motored us over to Stonehall, near Dover, I was able to take 

 both the other species, but unfortunately the Decticus was rare. A. albipeimis, 

 too, was not much in evidence that day, but on a visit to the same spot in the 

 following week I found it in profusion by beating nettles over an lunbrella 

 about Stonehall Farm. Common grasslioppers were plentiful : Stenobothrus 

 virididus, S. bicolor, S. parallelus, all very vai'iable, with S. li^ieatus now and 

 again. Olynthoscelis cinercus was chirping continually in the low bushes, both 

 at Stonehall and in the Warren at Folkestone. Of Lepidoptera, Colias edusa 

 was plentiful, as in so many other places this year (it reached Yorkshire) ; and 

 Lycsena adonis was in good force, some fine underside varieties being taken by 

 Mr. Lofthouse and other collectors who were working for them at the time. 

 I confess, however, that for myself, I could not raise sufficient enthusiasm to 

 examine lumdreds of specimens for the s.ake of these vars. ! Sugar was tried 

 on three occasions only, twice in the Warren, and once near the Woods, but 

 moths were not plentiful at it, and nothing of special note was taken. — 

 Geo. T. Porkitt, Elm Lea, Daltou, Huddersfield : October 10th, 1913. 



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" Report and Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society." 

 Vol. XLV. 1912 Cardiff : printed for the Society by William Lewis, Duke 

 Street. 1913. 



The annual Report of this flourishing local Society, besides much matter 

 of interest to Naturalists in general, contains (pp. 41-58) the first part of a list 

 of the Coleoptcra of Glamorgan (to the end of the Philhydrida) comjjiled ))y our 

 esteemed correspondent Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A., F.E.S., whose name is a 

 guarantee of its acciu'acy and thoroughness. The records of Dillwyn, the Rev. 

 A. C. F. Kuper, and other early Coleopterists, including those of the venerable 

 Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, who in his yovith collected beetles in South 

 Glamorgan, are herein collated with the extensive captures and records made 

 by the compiler in more recent years, and the productiveness of this picturesque 

 and varied county in this Order of Insects is fully shown in that part of the 

 list which has so far appeared. Particulars of locality and habitat, &c., of the 

 species dealt with are given in brief but suilicient detail, and it is of special 



