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there would be in a manure heap. A. annulipes is common out 

 of doors, whereas L. arachidis is more common in the works. 



Blattodea. — Ectohius lapponicns M'as taken on July 15th in 

 the Devil's Punch-bowl, at Hindhead, Surrey. On July 30th, 

 at Aldridge Hill, in the New Forest, I captured a male of the 

 same species, which readily took to flight, this being, I believe, 

 the first time I had seen a cockroach of any kind upon the wing. 

 On Beaulieu Heath, in the New Forest, a female Ectohius panzeri 

 was taken on September 1st, carrying its ootheca. The wings 

 of this species are rudimentary in the mature female, so there 

 is nothing out-of-the-way in a short-winged insect, as was this 

 one, possessing an ootheca. On September 29th I received from 

 Kew Gardens a mature example of Pycnoscelus surinamensis, 

 which was remarkable for its very small size. 



Locustodea. — On July 7th I received from Mr. J. E. le B. 

 Tomlin a " long-horned " grasshoj^per caught just previously at 

 Streatley, Berks. It was probably a nymph of Pliasgonura 

 viridissima. When put in a breeding-cage it commenced to 

 crawl up the vertical surface of the glass front, and repeatedly 

 put its tarsi into its mouth, for all the world as if it was 

 making them wet so that they might cling to the glass the 

 better. A mayfly put into the same cage to mature was found 

 afterwards to have its head much damaged, presumably having 

 been attacked by the grasshopper, though whether the mayfly 

 had previously died I cannot say. On September 3rd two 

 females of Metrioptera albopunctata {= grisea), one of which had 

 the dorsal surface of head and thorax rust-coloured, were taken 

 at Chapman's Pool, Dorset. This species seems fond of a 

 clayey sliding cliff-side, where its colouring assimilates well 

 with that of the rough vegetation. On September 9th, near 

 Claygate, Surrey, four specimens, including both sexes, of Lepto- 

 phyes punctatissima were found on leaves of alder, some two or 

 three feet from the ground, from which position they evinced 

 very little desire to escape when the camera was brought into 

 play. A female of Pholidoptera griseo-aptera (= Thamnotrizon 

 cinereiis) brought home from the New Forest at the beginning of 

 September lived in captivity till October 6th. 



Acridiodea. — Gomphocerus maculatus was the first grass- 

 hopper found mature, the date being June 15th and the place 

 Oxshott, Surrey ; a dark female was taken there on September 

 22nd. Staiiroderus bicolor and Chorthipphus parallelus, which 

 shewed much diversity of colour, were taken on September 3rd, 

 at Chapman's Pool, on the Dorset coast ; and both sexes of the 

 latter were taken on September 19th, in Ashtead Woods, 

 Surrey, where the specimens varied much in colour, one being 

 very rosy. Several colour-forms of S. bicolor have received 

 varietal names, but it would be hardly an exaggeration to say 

 that scarcely two are exactly alike in colour. One feels certain. 



