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in a flower-pot and covering with muslin ; most hybernating larvae 

 will feed upon this until spring, when their own food-plant may be 

 found. 



4. — Look with lamp at night at blooms of ragwort for llndmccia 

 liicnis {7iictita7is), Aiirotis ohclixra, and other Noctuids, which are rather 

 later in Perthshire than in the south of England. 



5. — Sugar north side of woods for preference, for Ai/riojiis aprilnia, 

 Ai/rotis oheliHca, Kpunda ni<ira, Orrhodia vaccinii, <). ('ri/throcephala, 

 Scopeloaoma satellitia, Noctua glareosa, and many other species. 



6. — By hanging a lamp on a tree in woods and standing by with a 

 net, Hiiiwra pennaria, Ennoinos crosaria, Oporahia (lilntata, and 0. 

 jilit/ravimaria may be taken ; so also may many Noctuids when 

 sugar fails. 



7. — Search old stunted birch-trees during this month for imagines 

 of Cidan'a miata and L('i>io(irautma scotana, the latter can be seen from 

 a good distance (where it occurs). 



8. — Sweep Callima ndfiaris for the larvfe of Anarta nnjrtilli, 

 Scodiona bch/ioria, etc. 



9. — Macrothijlacia rithi larvaa may be obtained in abundance during 

 this month by searching at dusk by woodsides, these may be kept 

 successfully by putting a good sized turf of grass in a box and placing 

 the larvte thereon ; cover with muslin and stand out-of-doors. 



[N.B. — We should be very glad to receive from lepidopterists com- 

 plete series or individual "hints " for any month. Variety can only 

 be obtained by the combined efforts of many lepidopterists accustomed 

 to work in different districts. — Ed.] 



<1>RTH0PTERA. 



A RARE Grasshopper : AtiROECiA vittipes. — About the middle of July 

 last, a boy brought to me, alive, a large grasshopper which he had caught 

 on a wall of his house at St. Albans, Herts. It at once struck me as 

 being a rarity, and, through the kindnessof Mr. Malcolm Burr, F.E.S., 

 it has now been definitely identified. At first Mr. Burr was inclined 

 to think it was the female of Af/yoecia uiiirifrons, of which hitherto only 

 the male had been described. On further investigation, however, the 

 unusual visitor has been definitely identified as A;iroecia vittipefi. It 

 has been recorded by Eedtenbacher from Theresopolis in Brazil, and 

 the type is in the Brunner collection in the Hof Museum in Vienna. 

 Both sexes of this species have been described, but I believe I am correct 

 in stating that this is its first recorded occurrence in Great Britain. 

 There is little doubt, however, that it is an imported specimen, as 

 there is an orchid nursery not far from where the grasshopper was 

 captured, and it must have been brought into this country with some 

 plants from South America. It measures over two inches from the 

 end of the ovipositor to the head ; in colour it is dark brown, has two 

 very large and long hindlegs and two pairs of smaller ones in front, 

 very long slender antennae and a long ovipositor. Judging from the 

 hopping feats which I witnessed this specimen perform, I should 

 imagine that in its native habitat its powers in this direction must be 

 very considerable. — W. Percival Westell, M.B.O.U., St. Albans, 

 Herts. Sejiteinber 6th, 1902. [As Mr. Burr is abroad we insert this 

 although it is evidently only an independent record of the specimen 

 noted antca, p. 243. — Ed.] 



