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failed to find it, had it been there, and even if it had been hiding in the 

 roots it would have been revealed by the systematic grubbing for beetles. 

 On Auo- St 18th, we found it in numbers in the reeds, and among sea- 

 lavender which grows round the edges of the sluggish \ar near 

 Feshwater station; at that date, ^b-t^alf the specim^^^^^^^^ 

 immature • it is a very beautiful insect when alive, but the bnliiant 

 e^raldt^een colour fades and disappears on drying, and often the 



Tad snecniiens turn dirty brown, even the clear brigh posterior femora 

 dead specimens uuny ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^.^ 



Z^^tt^e^^^ere is a stiJg tendency to turn 

 redd^sh?whirh IS perhapL because the formaline may have been used 



'""tZ'a nruUssl.a swarms in the island; at Freshwater i^t i. 



nmnemus in all the hedges and at night its chirping resounds all 



round min-linc^ with the stridulation of Tluu„nntrn<n^nnereus, and 

 hiLfncrssant rattle of the grasshoppers on a fine night sounds more 

 ike ITouth European country than an English watering-place L. 

 S,/^.^° a I common along the cliffs at Compton Bay, and further 

 nl nd'beVond Compton Farm, ^1- at Blackgang and on the Under- 



eliff; we h'eard Its stridulation ver^l^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ 



spei^Tr ;t^:=a^ W it^ ^rcled as being rather ra^ 

 rS; Ibave aUvays ta^ ^ S^^^ ^het^S 



rof^hXll a\Mlke^;L'rTte or two cannot be found and I 

 ^ook It at^Compton Farm, at Blackgang, in ^^^'^^^^ ^^^^^.^^^^^^ 

 in thick beds of flowers, and common enough at Parkhuist J^orest. 

 At Frl'^^ler it sometimes e..n comes into tbe houses and I have 

 had specimens of " an extraordinary insect ^^^\^"g\^ ^^^f J„^'^n 



W r und fo'rd at t^nng, Dormans Park and Edenbridge in Kent 

 I have often heard its chirp in the hedges when walking or druing at 



"^P.:I:1:T;S,'^^^- ^^ extremely common on the cUffs at 

 Confp o Bay; it usually seems to be most numerous on chalk 1 ft. 

 aH? Folkestone, especially where there -/^"-^o^^'t^; ^^^ 

 rnmnton Bav it is equally numerous on the outcrop of the Crieen 

 S it twarmed, \oo,'on the Underclift^ and was c n-^^^^^ 

 ■PI r.hl^t^<r P hrnchnntera is common in the long grass ana uu^ 

 S at^DenT^y nd fiatley Bogs, in the New Forest, and I found it 

 7numbers at St. Catharine's Hill at the back of Chnstchurch. 



The only cricket that I found was Xe.nolnn. .jlvestn., l^^ vhich 

 is common in the woods m the New Forest ; on August 20th, it was 

 on y The found sparmgly, though the y^^;^^'^:^,^:^;^^^^ 

 finer weather, two days later, I took more of it, but the very youn^ 

 larvfe far outnumbered the imagines. 



Habits of the Imagines of Anthrocera purpuralis (minos). 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 

 . T have already published {Jirit. Leimhptera, i., pp. 440-4-42) what 

 J. to meSSting notes on the habits of Anthrocera jnapurcdv., and 

 The Let riai I have ,Site recently seen the species again in considerable 



