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September 30th. M. brachyptera, Linn. : Of this grasshopper, 

 fairly common on damp jiround in the New Forest, I caught 

 several on August 10th at Beaulieu Heath. 



Acridiodea. — Gomphocerus riifus, Liun. : On September 16th 

 this grasshopper appeared to be common on the Sheepleas, near 

 Horsley, in Surrey. G. maculatus, Thunb.: Stowell sent females 

 irom the Marlborough district. Harwood met with it commonly 

 at Tuddenham and also found it at Eoyston. Stowell tells me 

 that it occurs at Fowey. W. E. Evans found the species on 

 July 8th in Dovedale, Derbyshire. W. Evans, on September 

 28th, took both sexes, almost black, on ground where heather 

 had been burnt at the side of the hill road above Peaton, Loch 

 Long, Dumbartonshire. Omocestns viridtdus, Linn. : Stowell 

 took a specimen flying, and therefore mature, on July 19th, 

 in the Marlborough district. On the same day a female was 

 taken on the North Downs in Surrey. Li the New Forest on 

 August 14th I took a very conspicuous female, with much 

 strong dull crimson in its colouring. Even when seen on the 

 grass it was so strikingly coloured as to catch one's attention 

 immediately : antennse tinged with crimson towards the base ; 

 <iorsal surface green generally as usual except for a median 

 crimson line on head and thorax ; face crimson ; sides of 

 head and thorax crimson; costal region of elytra dull 

 crimson ; dorsal surface of thighs of all the legs crimson. 

 W. Evans took on August 30th one male and five females 

 at Craigbarnet, Campsie, Stirlingshire. 0. rufipes, Zett. : Quite 

 common at Marlborough Deeps in the New Forest on 

 August 16th. Stauroderus bicolor, Charp. : Stowell rei3orts both 

 sexes from the Marlborough district, and found it to occur 

 at Fowey. Chorthippux elegans, Charp. : On September 6th 

 this not very common species was plentiful near Denny Bof^ in 

 the New Forest. C. varalleliis, Zett. : Stowell met with both 

 sexes in the Marlborough district, and found it also at Fowey. 

 W. Evans took both sexes at Coulport, east side of Loch Lon», 

 Dumbartonshire, on September 21st. Mecostethus grossus, Linn.: 

 I took this tine insect on August 10th at the bog above Crockford 

 Pond in the New Forest, and found it plentiful at Denny 

 Bog on September 6th. Tetrix : These little grasshoppers were 

 often in the nymph stage at Marlborough Deeps in the New 

 Forest on August 16th. The few mature ones captured were 

 T. snbuiatus, Linn. The nymphs might have been taken for 

 T. bipiinctatus, Linn., seeing that the pronotum was not 

 produced to any great length, and perhaps some did belong 

 to the common species. 



Kingston-on-Thames, 

 September, 1918. 



