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G. vtociilatufi, Thunb., is pretty, variable, and quite common, 

 though I have not found it in many places in East Kent. 



Tetti.v hipunctatus, L., is, of course, common enough, but T. siibiilotiis, 

 L., is more localised than I used to think. I have found it at Radley, 

 Marston, Dormans, but almost always in damp situations. 



Leptoj>]ujes pimctatissinia, Bosc, is very common, and may always 

 be taken by sweeping in suitable situations. In my garden at Eastry, 

 at Sibertswold, and in the Warren, it is quite numerous. 



Meconerna varium, Fabr., is another very common insect in my 

 garden ; I take it by beating limes. 



Xiphidiuiii dorsale, Fabr., is quite local. I found a colony in 

 Sandwich Bay and a few specimens in the Ham Ponds, near Eastry, a 

 good locality, where we put up mallard and heron, and where the 

 redshank breeds. 



Lociista viruiisxiiiia, L., is common in East Kent, and is found a 

 good many miles inland. It is abundant in SandAvich Bay, the 

 Warren, and at Heme Bay, and also occurs at Eastry, Fredville, 

 Adisham, and doubtless in numerous other localities. 



Olynthoscelis (jriseo-aptera, De Geer { — Thaiimotrizon einereits, L.), 

 betrays his presence by his perpetual chirp. In Insects at Home, p. 251, 

 the late Rev. J. G. Wood remarks that the female of this species 

 is common enough, but the capture of a male is " an event in an 

 entomologist's day." The author must have been hard of hearing, 

 for the male always betrays his presence by his characteristic 

 stridulation, whereas the mute female can only be found by hunting 

 among the thickets. The hedges round Eastry resound at night with 

 the incessant chirping of crowds of this striking insect, but it requires 

 a certain amount of patience and skill to actually catch the male, on 

 account of its agdity, though they can often be seen. Once recognised, 

 its chirp cannot be forgotten, and, though low, it is so penetrating that 

 the accustomed ear can detect it even through the conflict of other 

 sounds. When walking and talking, and even cycling along the roads 

 of East Kent, from August to October, I can always hear the low 

 insistent tss, tss, tss, on fine warm afternoons and evenings. I have 

 never yet looked for it in vain in suitable situations, during the season, 

 in East Kent, Isle of Wight, and the neighbourhood of East Grinstead 

 and of Oxford, the only localities where I have looked for it. I conse- 

 quently look upon it as abundant and universally distributed through- 

 out at least the southern half of England. 



rlatijclcis (jruea, Fabr., is common in the dunes of Sandwich Bay 

 and at the Warren, but is not found far from the coast. 



P. brarliyptera, L., perhaps does not occur in East Kent ; I have 

 not come across it here, because there is not much heather or moor- 

 land. There must be a colony of P. rneselii at Heme Bay. I wish 

 I could find it. 



Ik'cticus remicironis, L., maintains its colony at Stonehall. I 

 have not found the colony at St. Margaret's. It requires patience 

 to stalk it down, and it only chirps when the sun is hot. Once 

 detected it can be easily followed, as its oily green colour and great 

 long legs make it look like a frog as it makes its huge springs in 

 the long grass. There are probably other colonies. I hunted care- 

 fully in the lonely and sheltered grass-slopes of the Lydden -Waters- 

 end Valleys, but found nothing there, indeed, nothing of any interest 



