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coloration, it may be useful to place on record the colour- 

 characters of the Essex male, which were as follows : — 



Head ash-colour. Palpi brownish. Eyes brownish black, 

 with a horizontal black streak above each, partially bordered 

 below with yellow. Antenna light brown. Pronotum pale 

 brown ; side-flaps black, edged all round with bright yellow. 

 Elytra lightly tinged with brown ; principal longitudinal nervures 

 black. A pair of bright yellow spots on each side of the thorax. 

 Legs light brown ; black lines on hind femora ; inferior surface 

 of tibiffi of fore and mid legs greenish. Abdomen dorsally and 

 superior appendages dull brown; ventral surface and inferior 

 appendages deep yellow ; a row of light yellow markings along 

 each side of the abdomen. 



Leigh can now be added to the very few British localities 

 hitherto recorded for M. roeselii, which seems to show a pre- 

 ference for the East Coast. It is not to be assumed, however, 

 that this distribution is due to immigration from the Continent, 

 as that supposition appears to be excluded by the ill-developed 

 condition of the wings in this Decticine. 



From Trusthorpe, Lincolnshire, Mr. Eland Shaw received 

 specimens taken in August, 1888 (Ent. Mo. Mag. s. i. p. 96, 

 1890). 



At Heme Bay, Kent, the species has been met with by more 

 than one collector. Mr. E. Saunders took a specimen in 

 August, 1886 (Ent. Mo. Mag. loc. cit.), and a male contained in 

 Mr. Guermonprez's collection is recorded in Entom. xxx. p. 28, 

 1897. Another isolated specimen, a female, was obtained by myself 

 on September 13th, 1907 (Entom. xl. p. 255, 1907), although I 

 have never been able to re-discover the species in or about the 

 locality where I took it in that year. Mr. Charles 0. Water- 

 house, however, appears to have found the insect in some num- 

 bers, for the British Museum cabinet of British Orthoptera con- 

 tains seven examples (five males and two females) of roeselii from 

 its Kentish haunt. These formed part of a collection of eighty 

 insects of various kinds made by him in the neighbourhood of 

 Heme Bay at the end of July and the beginning of August. 

 The collection is registered as having been presented to the 

 Museum in 1887, and Mr. Waterhouse tells me it is almost 

 certain that his specimens were taken in that year, the great 

 majority of them in the month of July. A female pupa, taken 

 on the same occasion, is now, through the kindness of Mr. 

 Waterhouse, in my own collection. 



With Mr. Waterhouse's specimens are placed a pair derived 

 from Stephens' collection. As was to be expected, they are 

 without data, but the male carries the printed name " Eoeselii, 

 Hage." Dr. Malcolm Burr has been good enough to examine 

 the specimens for me, and has pronounced both of them to be 

 correctly identified as roeselii. Ail that is discoverable con- 



