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Moths." In the " Zoologist " for 1859, p. 6734, there is a note signed by myself lo 

 this effect : — " I have much pleasure in recording the capture of a second specimen of 

 the above insect : I took it on the 23rd ulto. (August) at sugar, within a few yards 

 of the place where Mr. Bond captured his specimen last year (should have been 

 1857) ; it is a female and in beautiful condition." This specimen was exhibited by 

 me at the Meeting of the Ent. So3. Lond., Sept. 5th, 1859, and is noticed in the 

 " Ent. Annual " for 1860, p 140; it is still in my possession. I think there have 

 been subsequent records : these I have not traced out, considering the foregoing to 

 be sufficient. The specific name would imply migratory habits. My example is in 

 such a condition that it might have been bred on the spot, and I have no reason to 

 suppose it was not ; I think this was also the case with Mr. Bond's specimen ; and 

 from its nature it is an insect that would soon show traces of weathering. — R. 

 McLachlan, Lewisham, London : December 14:th, 1895. 



Forficida anrivtdaria, var. forcipata, Steph., in the Channel Islands. — On the 

 west coast of Guernsey lies the small islet of Lihou. It is connected with Guernsey 

 by a rough causeway, said to have been constructed by the monks (the ruins of 

 whose monastery is still to be seen) to enable them to cross from one island to 

 another during low tides. This causeway is about 700 yards long, and is covered 

 during at least half of every tide. The islet is of rectangular shape, and is about 

 600 yards long, by 150 wide. It contains one inhabited house, with a few small 

 patches of cultivated ground. The remainder is very sandy soil, covered with grass 

 and short herbage, and abounding in wild rabbits. Near the shore under stones I 

 found numerous specimens of a large earwig ; I submitted examples of these to 

 Mr. Saunders, who considered them to be Forjicula auricularia, var. forcipata, 

 Steph. I find, however, that Stephens, who gives an excellent figure of this variety 

 in his " Illustrations," states that it is found in high trees at Coombe Wood, and 

 also in the New Forest. I have found the same variety on another but much 

 smaller islet, not far from Lihou, called Chapelle Dom Hue, which is about 400 yards 

 from Guernsey, and also only accessible at low tides. 



I have searched the coast of Guernsey opposite these islets, but have found only 

 ordinary specimens of F. auricularia. The large and curious spider, Atypus Sulzeri, 

 Latr., is also very common on both these islets, many of their tubes going down to 

 a great depth in the sandy soil. — W. A. Luff, Guernsey: October 26th, 1895. 



Periplaneta ausfralasice at Kew.~Sonie two years ago I came into possession of 

 a specimen of a Periplaneta taken by the Hev. Windsor Hambrough several years 

 ago in one of the plant houses at Kew. Having then only just turned my attention 

 towards our Orthoptera, I looked upon it as a variety of /'. americana, and having 

 duly labelled it, placed it amongst my series of that insect, where it remained un- 

 noticed. Some few weeks ago on pointing out its peculiarities to Mr. W. J. Lucas, 

 he told me that he had recently taken an identical specimen, also in a plant house 

 at Kew. This led me to look to Mr. Eland Shaw's excellent description of the 

 species in his Monograph of our British Orthoptera in the Ent. Mo. Mag., from 

 which I found out what my specimen was, and I have since verified it by comparison 

 with the British Museum series. From the interval that elapsed between the dates 



