^dO THE KNTOMOLOGIST. 



I received Forficula atincnhiria, Linn, (a male, taken April 1st, 

 1916) from a garden at Levenr^haime, Lanes. (S. Paulson) ; and 

 from a wasp's nest at Manchester (Mrs. Cawley) four males 

 and two females (taken September 8th, 1916), the former having 

 callipers of various kinds, one he'ni^ var. forcipata, but not of 

 an advanced type. On April 6th, 1917, G. T. Lyle found two 

 mature females of this t-pecie^^ insiiie rotten wood in the New 

 Forest. Obviously tbey had hiliernated. It may be by chance 

 only, but I do not meet with F. anricidaria at all frequently 

 in the New Forest. B. S. Harwood sent me a, few Apterifgida 

 albipennis, Meg., of both sexes, taken at Sudbury in Suffolk on 

 August 31st. Though not infrequently beaten from herbage in 

 the district, its range is not a wide one. 



Blattodea. — In January, 1917, H. R. Wakefield sent me from 

 Swansea taree species of cockroaches. Eight mature examples 

 of Blattella (lermanica, Linn., came from the Church Army 

 Home at Swansea. Pcriplaneta americand, Linn., was caught 

 in the Pentre Pit (dei)th untaiown). They are abundant in the 

 workings, where the colliers call them '' })it-beetles." Periphmeta 

 austrtdaaice, Fabr., was brought to him by the Spanish Consul, 

 who said that these cockroaches had played havoc with his 

 orchids, more especially the Catleyias and Vandas. As new 

 growth made its appearance it was immediately devoured by 

 the unwelcome visitors. Probably they came with some South 

 American orchids. 



Gryllodeu. — Gryllits doixesticus, Linn. — a male from Darwen 

 in Lancashire — sent for the 'Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna 

 Record,' is the sole cricket of which I have any note for 1917. 



Locitstodea. — Leptopht/es piinctatissima, Bosc. : On June 23rd 

 small nymphs were seen (L. Balcomb) between Lower Maiden and 

 Oxshott in Surrey. E. A. C. Stowell sent me a male taken from 

 a bramble-leaf in West Wood near Marlborough, Wilts, on 

 August 13th, and the next day I took a male sunning itself 

 in the New Forest on a bramble-leaf at Hurst Hill, where at 

 the same time it was being beaten from trees. Harwood took 

 .the species in his garden and elsewhere at Sudbury. Meconema 

 thalaifsuium, De Geer : Three were taken, on August 30th at 

 Sudbury by Harwood. Conocephalns dorsalis, Latr. : A nymph, 

 approaching maturity, was taken by Lyle at Wickeu Fen on 

 July 19th. Two nymphs, male ii,nd female, were captured 

 by G. C. Champion at Budleigh Salterton, South Devon, on 

 October 2nd., I could not find the species at Denny Bog in 

 the New Forest, where I found it some years ago. Phasgonura 

 viridissiiiia, Linn. : Harwood had it brought to him at Sudbury 

 to\vards the end of August. Pholidoptera griseoaptera, De Geer: 

 Stowell sent me one female from West Wood, taken on August 

 12th. Metrioptera albopunctata, Goeze. : Found by Stowell 

 upon rough herbage on the cliffside at Fowey in Cornwall on 



