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were watching a sparrow carried a specimen away from before 

 us. Possibly the same thing had occurred before, as several 

 wings and other remains were noticed near, the feast having 

 apparently taken place on the spot when the house was free of 

 visitors. Mr. W. Daws reports a male Periplaneta australasice 

 from Mansfield on February 14th, and in the afternoon of 

 September 14th a mature specimen was taken alive in one of the 

 lily-houses in Kew Gardens, where, however, this species has for 

 years been established under shelter. Another species which 

 bids fair to become equally well established in the houses there 

 is the neat little Surinam cockroach {Leucophcea surinamensis) . 

 Writing on April 20th Mr. G. Nicholson says it "is, or was, 

 abundant in the tropical houses. It is extremely active, and 

 disappears with a diving-like motion under the fibre. So far we 

 have not noticed that it does any harm, and it is not trapped 

 like B. orientalis, P. americana, or P. australasice. Hand-catching 

 seems to be the only way of dealing with it." Some casual 

 visitors belonging to this group of the Orthoptera have, as usual, 

 put in an appearance. Mr. W. Daws obtained a male Nyctibora 

 holosericea on February 28th at Mansfield (vide Entom. xl. 88). 

 Mr. W. F. Kirby received Stylopyga decorata, Br. {Dorylea rhomhi- 

 folia, Stoll.), which was found alive in the Western Tower, 

 Natural History Museum, on November 16th, damaged through 

 falling into lime. Mr. E. J. B. Sopp reports Panchlora nivea, L. 

 {virescens, Thunb.), from Warrington in November. No doubt 

 this list of "casuals" might be largely increased if captures were 

 systematically reported. 



AcRiDioDEA. — Mecostethus grossus was captured in several 

 bogs in the New Forest, but the species seemed to be rather late 

 in appearing, for I did not meet with it till August 17th. Mr. 

 Sopp took Stenobothrus elegans at Willingdon (Sussex) and at 

 Aldershot (Hants), and Gomphocerus maadatus at Frensham and 

 Farnham in Surrey, and at Eastbourne in Sussex. In Kew 

 Gardens Mr. G. Nicholson secured Stenobothrus bicolor and 

 S. paralleliis on September 18th. Gomphocerus riifus, one of our 

 less common grasshoppers, was found in one of its known 

 localities, Bookham Common (Surrey), on September 22nd. 

 The most interesting point, however, in connection with this 

 division of the Orthoptera was the capture by Mr. B. Piffard, of 

 Brockenhurst, of a Tettix subulatus in the New Forest about the 

 end of September. This specimen, which he was kind enough 

 to give to me, is the first of which I have had personal acquain- 

 tance, with the exception of some taken by myself on the Hamp- 

 shire coast a year or two since. 



LocusTODEA. — Of Leptophyes punctatissima , a very pretty 

 wingless grasshopper whose colours fade very rapidly, I took a 

 male in Brockenhurst on August 31st, and Mr. Sopp reports it 

 from Farnham (Surrey) in the first week of September. Olyn- 



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