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approached the food, apparently being always perfectly certain 
with regard to the direction in which it lay. After living in 
captivity over four months it succumbed during the Christmas 
season. 
In September Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin bottled for me a couple 
of Labia minor at Ledbury, in Herefordshire, but unfortunately 
a beetle ate them. On the occasion of the South London 
Society’s excursion to Oxshott, on Septem- 
ber 19th, Mr. W. J. Ashdown found a dead 
male, and during the Fungus foray of the 
same Society to Oxshott, on October 38rd, 
Mr. 8. R. Ashby obtained another male. 
On September 80th Mr. F. M. Dyke cap- 
tured a male which settled on his hand as 
he was walking along Southwark Street, near 
Blackfriars Bridge (vide vol. xli. p. 273). 
Forficula auricularia, the common earwig, 
seems to be somewhat subject to deformity 
i cha ance lo: in its callipers, and one so affected, taken in 
F. auricularia (x 10). ® garden at Teddington, Middlesex, seems 
of sufficient interest to be figured. The right 
branch of the callipers is normal, of the small rounded type ; 
the left is simple, and gives one the impression that the base 
of it is within the creature’s abdomen. 
Cockroacnes.—Two dark examples of Hctobia panzert were 
found on breaking up a decayed tree-stump by the side of 
Beaulieu River, in the New Forest, on August 14th, and Mr. 
HK. C. Bedwell gave me a female of this species, taken at Deal in 
August, which had its legs pale except for the knees and parts of 
the tarsi. On February 17th I received from Mr. H. Bradshaw 
a lively specimen of Rhyparobia medere, taken the same day in 
a greengrocer’s shop in Berrylands Road, Surbiton. It was 
found in some sea-kale beneath bananas which came from 
the Canary Islands. From Mr. G. T. Lyle I received a speci- 
men of Leucophea surinamensis, which was found crawling about 
on Christmas Day in a hothouse at Bishopstoke, Hants. Is 
this cockroach to become a pest in warm plant-houses in this 
country ? 
Locustips (long-horned grasshoppers).—On August 18th, in 
the New Forest, some wood-ants (Formica rufa) were trying to 
carry away so large an insect as Leptophyes punctatissima. Could 
they possibly have succeeded ? 
Mr. Tomlin obtained Meconema varium in his sweeping-net 
at Streatley on October 2nd. It was obtained from a fence in 
Fassett Road, Kingston-on-Thames, September 18th, and was 
captured on the South London Society’s excursion to the Oxshott 
district on September 19th. The female of a pair taken on this 
