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some time that day (after the morning) it changed its skin, and 
about 6 p.m. was pure pellucid white except the eyes, which 
were black. It was then a small mature male. It had eaten 
very little I fancy since I received it. I think I did not give it 
what it liked. It did not eat the skin cast on May 10th. 
Mr. A. Sich gave me a male F. auwricularia with callipers 
somewhat pronounced in the direction of var. forcipata, Steph. 
It was taken at Chiswick on October 17th. On August 30th 
Mr. D. Sharp gave me a large male Labia minor, Linn., with 
well-developed callipers, which he caught in Brockenhurst. 
Blattodea.—Females of Lctobius lapponicus, Linn., were 
taken in the New Forest on June 21st and 22nd. On January 
12th in the warm tortoise-house in the Zoological Gardens some 
imagines of Periplaneta australasie, Fabr., were seen. One, 
apparently hurt, wriggled down to the water on its back. After 
a time a painted terrapin (Chrysemys picta) of North America 
caught and ate it. Writing from the British Museum (Natural 
History) on June 19th, Mr. F. W. Edwards said :—‘‘ Recently 
some specimens of Periplaneta americana, Linn., were sent me, 
which were found in a coal-mine at Pontnewydd, Monmouth- 
shire; they are known to have been there for some years.”’ Mr. 
G. T. Porritt tells me that Mr. J. Gardner sent him a specimen 
of Panchlora exoleta, Klug., found at Hartlepool on February 19th; 
Mr. Roase Butterfield sent him specimens for examination of 
Periplaneta australasie and P. americana from Keighly in West 
Yorkshire; and Mr. D. H. H. Corbett sent a specimen of Blattella 
germanica, Linn., which species was swarming in a house in 
Doncaster. 
Gryllodea.—On March Ist a short search was made in a 
known loeality near Rhinefield in the New Forest for Nemobius 
sylvestris, Fabr. Though one nymph at least was found, no 
imagines could be seen. Later in the year, on April 10th, Mr. 
G. T. Lyle and myself, in a spot amongst dead leaves near Lady 
Cross, found a number of young specimens of this cricket, and 
with them one male much larger than the rest, but still not an 
imago. It would be interesting to discover for certain how this 
insect passes the winter in the New Forest. 
Locustodea.—On August 16th, within Brick-kiln Inclosure 
in the New Forest, several examples, both male and female, of 
Leptophyes punctatissima, Bose., were found on and near 
bramble-leaves. There were some half-a-dozen in possession of 
about a square yard or so of brambles. Resting thus on 
bramble-leaves seems to be a habit of the species. In captivity 
some of these insects fed well on leaves of mountain ash (Pyrus 
aucuparia, Gertn.) and rose-leaves from the garden. On the 
morning of August 22nd one of three put alive in a glass-topped 
box had disappeared, with the exception of two small portions 
of legs; so evidently the species may turn cannibal on occasion. 
ENTOM.-— JANUARY, 1916. Cc 
