28 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES ON BKITISH ORTHOPTERA. 



By Malcolm Bukr, F.E.S. 



The kindness of Mr. Guermonprez, of Bognor, has recently 

 allowed me to inspect some of the specimens in his collection of 

 British Orthoptera. Some of the localities are new ; and the 

 capture of Pycnoscclus indicus and Qildijjoda ccerulescens is very 

 interesting. The former bids fair to become cosmopolitan, and, 

 like other cockroaches, will perhaps be some day naturalised in 

 England. Our claim of the latter as a British species is based 

 on the capture of two, many years ago, at Southampton, most 

 probably, as Mr. Dale suggests, imported with vegetables from 

 Jersey, where it is common. There are two now in the British 

 Museum collection, which I believe are the original pair. The 

 following list includes the more interesting species : — 



Ectohia livida, Fab. Pupse. Charlton Forest, in North Sussex, 

 and at Bognor. — E. lapponica, L. A male from a wood near Cocking, 

 Sussex; and two, which I have not seen, similar individuals, from 

 Wood Eartham and Dane Wood, in Sussex. 



Pycnoscclus indicus, Fab. Two specimens, taken some time ago in a 

 house in Bognor ; evidently imported from abroad. This species is 

 indigenous to India and Ceylon, and has spread with trade to the 

 United States and Mexico. I am not aware that it has been taken 

 before in this country. (At p. 21, line 13 from bottom, for Pi/ciioselus 

 read Pycnoscclus.) 



Stenobothrus elerjans, Charp. Pagham Marsh, Sussex. 



Gomphocerus maculatus, Thunb, Heyshott and Cocking and 

 Eartham, in Sussex ; also Tonbridge Wells. 



G^dipoda canilcscens, L. One mutilated specimen. As to data, 

 Mr. Guermonprez says that his recollection of its locality is "decidedly 

 hazy," but he thinks near London. It was taken many years back, 

 probably before 1870. 



2'ettix bipunctatus, L. Dorking ; Hayling Island ; Dale Park. 



Leptophycs punctatissima, Bosc. Dorkiug ; Blear Wood, near 

 Heme Bay, in November (imago) ; Bognor, at sugar at night, and on 

 palings. 



Meconema variutn, Fab. Dale Park; near Bosbam ; Bognor, at 

 night, on palings and at sugar. 



Xipliidimn dorsale, Latr. Pagham Marsh. 



Locustn viridissima, L. Bognor. 



Platycieis brachyptera, L. A male from Broadwater Down, Ton- 

 bridge Wells. — P. roeseUi, Hagenb. A male from a field at Heme 

 Bay ; probably the same locality where Mr. Saunders took this rare 

 species (Ent. Mo. Mag. n. s. i. (1890) ). One pupa from Par, Cornwall, 

 seems to be referred to this species, the pale border on the lateral lobes 

 of the pronotum showing up distinctly ; but this border is more or less 

 visible in the first stages of P. yrisea, Fab., in which species it is lost 

 before arriving at the nymph stage. 



Th(uitnotri::on cincreus, L. A female was taken at Aldwicb, in 



