^56 THE entomologist's record. 



similar localities to .1/. ijrossHs, and has a similar distribution, but is 

 rarer and more local ; it occurs at Fontainebleau, where N. f/rossiis is 

 common ; it resembles that species in size and structure, but is of a 

 pale blue or bright green colour, with a black band running from the 

 eyes across the lateral ridges of the pronotum backwards over the 

 elytra. 



Stenuhotlints Uneatun, Panzer, I looked for in vain; .S. viridulus, 

 Linn., I only found in the New Forest and in Parkhurst Forest ; I 

 was surprised not to come across it on the Downs round Freshwater, 

 as generally it is common enough on grassy uplands throughout the 

 country. I did not succeed in discovering S. rujipea : this handsome 

 species I have always found far less common than is generally supposed, 

 in fact, in Great Britain it should rank as quite locally distributed, 

 and all captures should be carefully recorded. S. hicolor, Charp., of 

 course, was abundant everywhere, with all its colour varieties. 

 8. parallel us., Zett., too, was numerous nearly everywhere, but I never 

 found .S'. loniiicornh, Charp., which I had hoped to discover in the New 

 Forest, as I have taken it in similar places, together with M. i/rossus, 

 in France; it is a very local species, occurring in a few marshy places in 

 North Central France, and there is no reason whatever why we should not 

 find it in England. ^'. eleijans, Charp., I found in several places ; the first 

 one I took was in the rank grass on the shingle by the bathing machines 

 at Freshwater Bay, where it is fairly numerous ; I found it later, 

 though less numerous, in the marshy fields at the Freshwater end of 

 the swamp that runs to Yarmouth ; in Parkhurst Forest it was common 

 enough in the open clearings by the rifle range, and I took it sparingly 

 in a grassy field below Matley Bog in the New Forest. 



Goii)jt}iocerM!> )iiaciilatiis, Thunb., is common on the Downs round 

 Freshwater ; I took it also in the ridings in Parkhurst Forest, and at 

 Blackgang Chine, also at Denny Bog and at St. Catharine's Hill at 

 the back of Christchurch, where I had gone to hunt in vain for 

 Decticus verrucivorus, L. 



Tettix bipiinctatus, L., we took in Parkhurst Forest, and at 

 Compton Bay ; also on the Underclift', but it did not appear to be 

 numerous anywhere ; T. subidatn.^, L., I did not succeed in finding ; 

 like (S'. rufii)es, this has the reputation of being a fairly common 

 species, but is less so than is generally supposed. 



LeptoiiJnjcs pitnctatissuna, Bosc, is common nearly everywhere ; I 

 have taken it in plenty by sweeping in the village of Freshwater and 

 at Freshwater Bay, Compton, Blackgang Chine Underclift', Parkhurst 

 Forest, and also at Denny. 



I was very pleased to find a new locality for the very local Xiiihidiiiui 

 (hrsalc, Latr. The first specimen was a single female, taken on the salt- 

 marsh at Yarmouth ; both Mr. Donisthorpe and myself had carefully 

 swept a certain corner of the marsh for the whole of one afternoon and 

 one morning, and only at the last sweep I found a solitary female of 

 Xijthidium dormle in my net, after I had abandoned hope of finding it 

 there : some days later Mr. Donisthorpe took several in a small area 

 near at hand, which we had both worked carefully on several occasions, 

 for a certain beetle, and yet it was only after several days' search 

 that A', donale turned up ; this shows, I think, that the specimens 

 must have moved there since we had first begun to search, as the 

 grasses and marsh-plants are short and clear, and we could hardly have 



