60 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Exeter. Mr. C. W. Brackén tells me that Meconema thalassinum, 
De Geer, can be taken in abundance in August, September and 
October in the Priory Gardens, Saltash (on the Cornish side of 
River Tamar opposite Devonport). It is found freely on bay; 
there are no oaks in the garden. He further says that Pholidoptera 
griseo-aptera, De Geer, is very common in many places in Devon 
and Cornwall: he could have taken twenty or thirty in a few square 
yards near Plymouth in August. [Mr. Bracken sends me an 
addition to Devon records for 1914, which perhaps might suit- 
ably be noted here: ‘After five hours’ patient sweeping near 
Churston, 8. Devon, on August 26th, 1914, I took three (two ¢, 
one ¢?) of the rare orthopteron, Conocephalus dorsalis, Latr. 
They were captured in exactly the same spot as that in which 
Mr. G. T. Porritt took them several years ago. It was a pretty 
sight to see them sunning themselves on the rushes, their 
antenne waving like threads of spun glass.’ 
Acridiodea.—My first acquaintance with orthoptera in the 
field in 1915 was made on June 5th, when tiny nymphs, no 
doubt all Acridians, courted attention in the neighbourhood of 
Oxshott, Surrey. On the 19th, amongst grasshoppers found on 
Netley Heath, Surrey, Omocestus viridulus, Linn., was taken 
mature. Judging, however, by its texture and colouring, it had 
but recently become an imago. On July 3rd grasshoppers were 
plentiful on the North Downs near Newland’s Corner. On 
August 6th Omocestus rufipes, Zett., Chorthippus parallelus, 
Zett., Stauroderus bicolor, Charp., and nymphs of Tetrix were 
found at Marlborough Deeps, in the New Forest. Mecostethus 
grossus, Linn., was seen several times at a large bog in the New 
Forest on August 8th, and a large female was captured. 
S. bicolor and C. parallelus were taken at Bincombe on August 21st, 
and near Preston on August 22nd—both near Weymouth, in 
Dorset-—while C. parallelus was taken also at Upwey, in Dorset, 
on August 23rd. 
On September 38rd I renewed acquaintance with Chorthippus 
elegans, Charp., at Matley Bog, in the New Forest. On the same. 
day (September 83rd) I found a specimen of Tetrix bipunctatus, 
Linn., on a leaf, and by its side the empty nymph-skin from 
which it had lately emerged. Apparently the change had been 
so recent that the imago was scarcely strong enough to leap. 
Earlier in the season (on June 5th) I had found an example of 
this species swimming in a rut near Oxshott. Presumably it 
had hopped into the water and was swimming out. On Sep- 
tember 4th I paid another visit to Marlborough Deeps to get 
specimens of its congener 7’. subulatus, Linn., and secured a few 
by|jsweeping in damp places. Writing from Plymouth, Mr. 
Bracken says: ‘‘ 7’. bipunctatus is common everywhere, but 
T’. subulatus rarely occurs. Mr. J.H. Keys has given me one 
taken at Nodder Bridge, Saltash (near Plymouth, buton the Cornish 
