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photograph, Mr. G. T. Lyle was kind enough to take and give to 

 me a negative of the insect (x 2 4) which is here reproduced.* 



Mr. J. J. Walker {in. litt. November 9th, 1910) informed me 

 that he had twice taken Forficula lesnei singly during 1910, at 

 Cothill, near Abingdon, in Berkshire, on September 18th and 

 20th respectively. [Writing hiter he stated that on October 3rd, 

 1907, he took a female by sweeping on Merrow Downs, between 

 Guildford and Newlands Corner, Surrey.] 



Blattodea. — Ectobiiis lapponiciis was taken near Ramnor, in 

 the New Forest, on August 9th, At Holm Hill, in the New 

 Forest, on August 21st, when -breaking up and examining the 

 trunk of a small dead burnt pine, I met with two or three speci- 

 mens of Ectohiiis panzeri. At the same time a Scolopendra 

 (centipede) was captured, holding one of these cockroaches, 

 which apparently it had just caught. Though not dead, the 

 cockroach moved but little ; possibly the centipede may have 

 paralysed it, but that I cannot say. While I watched, the centi- 

 pede seemed to be using its poison-jaws much as if they were 

 legs. The cockroach was held beneath the captor's body by 

 several of the anterior pairs of legs, ventral surface upwards ; I 



'■'•'■ It will probably be noticed that the insect when photographed was in 

 a slightly dama2;ed condition as regards head and thorax. 



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