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Forficulodea.— During September, while beating for Zonosoma 
omicronaria, Hiibn., etc., Mr. B. S. Harwood captured in Suffolk 
an earwig quite new to him. On comparing his capture with 
Burr's figure, and specimens that he had received from the late 
Mr. A. J. Chitty he found that it was Apterygida albipennis, Meg. 
(= media, Hagenb.), previously noted only from Kent and 
Norfolk. A few days later two specimens 
were taken on the Essex side of the Stour, 
and still later others were taken again in 
Suffolk with larvae of Apamea unanimis, Tr. 
Mr. Harwood considers the species not rare, 
since it occurred in three places, but certainly 
very local, as other apparently suitable spots 
failed to produce a specimen. It was beaten 
from hedges and other similar places. A. 
albipennis is of about the same size and 
colour as the common earwig (forficula 
auricularia, Linn.), but there are two clear 
points of distinction easily seen by an obser- 
Callipers g of A, Vant naturalist. (1) 4. albipennis is wing- 
albipennis (X 10.) less in both sexes, whereas in F’. auricularia 
a small portion of the well-folded wings 
is visible projecting from behind the small elytra. (2) Tbe 
callipers of the male bearno resemblance to those of I’. auricularia 
as the figure in ‘ Entom.’ xxxviil. p. 266, clearly shews. 
Blattodea.—Ectobius panzeri, Steph., was met with in the 
New Forest on August 11th, and this was the only cockroach 
record made by me during the year. 
Gryllodea.—On August 2nd some female specimens of Nemo- 
dius sylvestris, Fab., were captured in the neighbourhood of Lady 
Cross, in the New Forest. These were kept alive at home and 
supplied with food of various kinds. They were fed at first on 
leaves of Pyrus torminalis, Ehrh., and banana-fruit. Bread was 
readily eaten on August 12th, and the next day they fed freely 
off raw beef. Later in the day (13th) I noticed a quantity of 
cork-fragments in the large tube in which they were confined, 
bitten off, I presume, in an attempt to make a way out of the 
prison. They would not take to a Nasturtium leaf. One escaped 
on August 14th. On August 15th the remaining two appeared 
not to eat readily a piece of cheese. A rose-leaf was eaten a 
little only, although Pyrus torminalis had seemed quite acceptable. 
These two specimens were killed on August 19th. Apparently 
bread is a suitable food ; but it is quite possible that these crickets 
are omnivorous, like their relatives of the kitchen. Of this latter 
species, Gryllus domesticus, Linn., Mr. 8. E. Boycott sent me a 
male caught in a house at Radlett, in Herts., in November. 
Locustodea.—Mr. A. O. Rowden took a female Leptophyes 
punctatissima, Bose., in September on Clematis in a garden in 
