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LXI.-ADDITIONS TO THE WILD FAUNA AND 

 V^JS" THE E0TAL BOTANIC GARDENS, 



AJhiW ; VI. 



INSECTA. 



W. J. Lucas. 

 Since the publication of the list of the Wild Fauna of the Royal 



«^K ' m ^\ Bulletin ' Additional Series V., the following 

 species have passed through my hands : 



Orthoptkra. 



\J^ Q 00n } m °\ Earwi S> For/hula auricularia, Linn., came in 

 large numbers to sugar, spread as a lure to Lepidoptera, on the 

 evening of 22nd September, 1906. ' 



Two common British short-horned Grasshoppers are new to the 

 iM>w list : Stembothrus bicolor, Charp., and St. parallelus, Zett. 



A long-horned Grasshopper— the very delicate green Meconemu 

 9? n i ir % * al)r -> which lives on trees— came to the sugar on 

 jStaa September, L906, and is also new. To the same order 

 belongs, an immature Phaneroptera sp., taken in the Jodrell 

 laboratory by Mr. G. Massee ; this is not a British insect. Also 

 belonging to the same family, the Locustidae, was a specimen 

 or Diestrammena marmorata, de Haan, of the sub-family 

 Menopelmatinae, which is most probably a native of Japan. 



Several Crickets taken by Mr. Massee in the Jodrell Laboratory 

 are named Gryllodes (? hebraeus, Saussure), by Mr. R. Shelf ord ; 

 tnese also are not British. 



Three records of Cockroaches already published (K.B., Addi- 

 tional Series V., pp. 23, 24), are now found to need revision. 



Ischnoptera sp. has been identified as 7. natalensis, Wlk. The 

 Mauphoeta cinerea of the Bulletin is really N. brazzae, Bolivar, 

 whilst the smaller species of the same genus is N. cinerea, Oliv., 

 and not N. circumvagans. The last two are now figured. 



Neuroptera. 



Of Dragon flies I have received four species taken in the 

 gardens— one Sijmpetrum striolatum, Charp., captured by Mr. G. 

 ^icholson, August, 1907 ; Ischnura elegans, Lind., two males ; 

 nnallagma cyathigerum, Charp., one female ; Aeschna cyanea, 

 Mull., one male. Only the first, however, is new to the list. 



One specimen of the extremely useful green Lace wing, 

 bhrysopa vulgaris, Schn., was taken on the wing in the evening 

 °J ^2nd September, 1906, and three others were sent to me by 

 Mr. Nicholson— the first Kew record of this group. Since then 

 Mr. Nicholson has sent me a specimen of the less common Ch. 

 tenella, Schn., and on the evening of 21st June, 1907, I took in 

 the Gardens two specimens of a brown Lace wing, Hemerobius 

 lutescens, Fabr. Sialis lutaria, Linn., the Alder-fly, also belong- 



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