262 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
following information:—‘‘It is a rather rare and interesting 
species. Zetterstedt says that it is common in the central and 
southern parts of Scandinavia, and that the pupe are sometimes 
found under moss on trees. Schiner remarks that Boheman has 
found the pupe in the body of Forficula auricularia. ‘This is all 
that I can find about the life-history of this parasite, and I do not 
see how its living upon earwigs will account for its being found in 
a gall, unless an earwig had taken possession of an old gall with 
a hole in it, and had died there.” ‘This is by no means unlikely. 
Anthomyia pluvialis, L.— One female bred. Mr. Meade 
writes :—‘‘ This is often found about the leaves and bark of fruit 
trees, but nothing is known to me about the food of its larva.” 
Mr. Walker also bred this common species from the common 
oak-apple (A. terminalis galls), and, like many of the Anthomyude, 
the larvee probably live on decaying vegetable matter. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Olibrus eneus, O. geminus, Dasytes eratus, Anaspis maculata, 
Orchestes quercus, O. iota, Tachyerges salicis, Caliodes quercus, 
Mecinus pyraster, Coccinella bipunctata, C. variabilis, and C, 
14-punctata were all bred, more or less abundantly, by Mr. Weston. 
The too common Phyllotreta undulata occurred to Mr. Bignell in 
May. ‘These call for no special remarks, as probably all had 
hybernated in the old galls as imagos, for which they are very 
convenient. It is these hybernators more than the legitimate 
inhabitants which are so attractive to the various titmice. 
ORTHOPTERA. 
Meconema varium, Fabr.—The extraordinary insect figured at 
the head of this article is the young of this species, probably 
about two days after leaving the egg. M. variwm is interesting to 
British entomologists, as it is our only indigenous locust. Walker, 
Von Heyden, Hofmann, Rudow, and Mayr have all recorded 
M. varium as a not infrequent inquiline in A. terminalis galls. 
Leopold Fischer, in his great work on the Orthoptera Europea, 
says :—‘D. de Heyden larvas sepe numeroque satis magno e 
gallis Cynipis Quercus terminalis educayit mecumque larvam 
adhuc mollem, exiguam (1’” langam) benevole communicavit, que 
exeunte majo oro exclusa erat necdum exuvias mutaverat”’ (p. 241}. 
This is the only reference I find to the remarkable long-legged, 
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