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On examining the skin, I found that the same leg was missing. The extra 

 joint of the antennae in the imago seems to be produced by the second joint in 

 the nymph (which is nearly twice the length of the other joints) dividing into 

 two equal parts, thus giAing the five joints common to the Peiitatomids. 



July 17th. Another imago has hatched out. In the evening, I introduced 

 into the same bottle two small, shining purple-black larvae of a Pentatomid (?). 

 as they also were found on birch. 



Jul;/ ISf.h. I noticed in the morning that one of the small larvae had 

 imbedded its rostrum in the abdomen of the uninjured P. riifipes imago, which 

 was dead. This I removed, as it was otherwise unspoilt as a specimen. I 

 then removed larvae and gave them the deformed imago. Almost immediately 

 the smaller larva of the two attacked the imago, and very shortly afterwards I 

 found the P. rufipes on its back, the larva having stuck its rostrum into a fold 

 of the abdomen. The imago then remained on its back, its legs and antennae 

 jerking spasmodically. On being disturbed, the larva walked backwards, pulling 

 the imago, still attached to its rostrum, as though it feared being deprived of its 

 feast.— H. R. P. Collett, Hale, Cheshire : Jidu 19th, 1922. 



A Grasshopper 7ieiv to Britain. — When looking through the collection of 

 JBritish Orthoptera in the Natural History Museum, I came across a $ 

 oi Stauroderus vagcms (Eversni.) put in amongst series of St. hicolor. It agrees 

 perfectly well with the description in Brunner's " Prodromus der europaischen 

 Orthopteren" (p. 118), and seems to belong to the form (subspecies ?) with 

 incrassate head mentioned by that author as occurring in the more southern 

 localities. Unfortunately, no more specimens could be found in the collection, 

 which makes it impossible to state that this particular form is constant in 

 Britain. St. vagans is very much like St. hicolor, which is, perhaps, the com- 

 monest grasshopper in Britain, but it is easily separated from that insect by 

 the lateral keels of the pronotum being not angulated, but rotundato-inflexed 

 in the prozona ; by the transverse furrow of the pronotum placed distinctly 

 behind the middle ; by the shorter elytra, in the 5 scarcely extending beyond 

 the tip of the abdomen ; and by the underside and the legs not being covered 

 with dense hairs, as they are in St. bicolor. The species was originally 

 described from S.E. Russia, but is known to occur sporadically all over 

 Europe. W. J. Lucas (Monogr. Brit. Orth., p. 257) records it from Jersey, 

 Channel Islands ; but it has been never noticed from Britain, and our specimen, 

 labelled New Forest {F. P. Pascoe), enriches the British fauna by one more 

 short-horned grasshopper. It is not unlikely that <S'^. vagans has been taken 

 by collectors before and confused with St. bicolor ; at any rate, further records 

 of its occurrence in Britain are very desirable. — B. P. Uvarov, F.E.S., Natural 

 History Museum, Cromwell Road, S.W. 7 : August 1922. 



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Hamilton H. Druce, a son of the late Herbert Druce, died on June 21st, 

 aged 51. He no doubt inherited his love of Exotic Lepidoptera from his 

 father, who for many years was a voluminous writer on the same subject. 

 Numerous papers on these insects, mainly on Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae, were 



