THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXIV.l JUNE. 1901. [No. 457. 



OKTHOPTEKA IN 1900. 



By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



(Plate III.) 



During 1900 little of importance seems to have been done or 

 observed in connection with the British representatives of the 

 Orthoptera, and were it not that records in connection with this 

 order are few, it would be out of place to publish the following 

 brief notes of my own, especially as my work in the order during 

 the year was very spasmodic. In all, or nearly all, the other 

 orders new species have been added to the British list, but the 

 total of the Orthoptera remains unchanged ; perhaps no more 

 are left to be discovered. 



Among the Earwigs, Mr. Ashdown again found Forficula 

 lesnei common in the old locality in the neighbourhood of 

 Eanmore, in Surrey. There was, of course, no dearth of F. 

 auricidaria. On Sept. 16th, one beaten from a tree on Esher 

 Common, about 10.30 a.m., had apparently just cast its last 

 skin, and was of a uniform pale creamy-white tint, except the 

 eyes, which were black, and a little dark cloudiness in one part 

 of the abdomen, due apparently to the contents. The insect, 

 which was a male, had practically assumed its correct colouring 

 by the evening. 



As regards the Cockroaches, females of Ectohia lapponica 

 were taken at sugar on Aug. 7th and Aug. 11th at Eamnor, in 

 the New Forest ; the little E. panzeri was found, and seemed to 

 be common, at the sandhills near Studland in Dorset ; and on 

 Sept. 26th a specimen of Rhijparohia maderce was received alive 

 and in good condition from Mr. South, who received it on the 

 night of Sept. 25th from Mr. H. 0. Dixon, the latter statingtbat 

 he found it "in his desk at Covent Garden the previous evening." 

 The insect is now in my possession. 



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