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eoprodacti/la was disturbed occasionally at all elevations reached. 

 Lovely A<ilais urticae bustled about nearly at the summit of the Pass, 

 and were quite at home there, although small larvre were seen next day 

 in the Dischma-Thal 2700 feet below, where also freshly-emerged 

 imagines were taken, showing how long some hybernated examples must 

 remain dormant in the more exposed places, and how early they get 

 on the wing when placed in better surroundings. From 7500ft.- 

 7800ft., near the summit of the Pass, masses of snow still lay in the 

 hollows not fully exposed to the sun, whilst on their edges the grass and 

 other plants Avere just putting forth their tender yellow-green leaves, 

 havingjust discovered thattheirshort spring-summer had arrived, whilst 

 much of the ground now covered with grass one suspects was a month 

 or six weeks earlier in like case. 



Orthoptera in East Kent in 1908. 



By MALCOLM BURR, B.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



The season in East Kent has been productive of nothing startling. 

 Apteri/iiida albipen)iis, Meg., maintains its abundance in its old haunt 

 at Stonehall, and I was glad to find that its distribution extends 

 towards Dover, for I found it in numbers at Watersend, nearly half a 

 mile to the south of the original colony, and again to the west of the 

 village of Lydden itself, half a mile from Stonehall. I find upon 

 inquiry that there was a hop-garden at Stonehall some thirty years 

 ago, and this probably accounts for the existence of the colony, for 

 this species appears to have a predilection for hop districts, at least in 

 this country. 



Forficnla lesnei, Finot, I have not yet found in East Kent outside 

 the Folkestone Warren, where I first swept it twelve years ago. 



Ectobia panzeri, Steph., is abundant on the sandhills which extend 

 along the shore line in Sandwich Bay from Deal to Shellness. One 

 dull wet afternoon, at the Warren, Mr. Ernest Green found four 

 immature females, on September 27th, by grubbing among the roots 

 of the grass. This species does not probably extend far inland ; per- 

 sistent search revealed a single female, among roots of the grass, in 

 the hillsides by Sunny Carvett, a couple of miles south-west of 

 Lydden. 



Stcnobothnis lineatus, Panz., I found only in three localities, 

 already recorded, namely, the Warren, Stonehall, and Golgotha, near 

 Sibertswold. 



OiiiocestHs viridulus, L., is common enough in East Kent, and I 

 have found it in most localities. Ham Ponds, Sandwich Bay, Golgotha, 

 Stonehall, Chalksole and Ewell Minnis. 



U. rufipes, Zett., has not yet turned up. I formerly looked upon 

 this handsome grasshopper as fairly common, because I took it in 

 numbers round Radley and Oxford, where I first collected grass- 

 hoppers, but experience has taught me that it is one of our most local 

 species. 



Staurodenis bicolor, Charp., and Chorthippns paraUelus, Zett., of 

 course swarm everywhere. The former occurs in all colours of the 

 rainbow, but the latter does not vary much. The fine autumn kept 



