136 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



From ten specimens ; the same magnification. 

 Male. — Not known. 



Described from ten females reared from the eggs of an 

 unknown moth on the leaves of sugar-cane. 



Habitat. — Java. 



Host. — Lepidopterous eggs (probably Bombycidse). 



Types. — In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females 

 on tags, three pins and a slide with two others. 



Euns to the genus in Ashmead's (1904) table. 



BKITISH OETHOPTEEA IN 1916. 

 By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



Most of the interesting facts connected with our limited 

 orthopterous fauna, which came to hand in 1916, had relation 

 to the earwigs — the abundance of L. minor and F. auricularia 

 in one district, and the occurrence of the invader, P. arachidis 

 in two others. Grasshoppers in the late summer seemed to 

 be about in their usual numbers, and chirped merrily as if 

 enjoying the bright sunshine of early August. Many examples, 

 however, of various species were not mature in the New Forest 

 by August 9th. How skilfully, after one of their flying leaps, 

 grasshoppers land with unerring safety on a slender grass-stem 

 or some similar object, when one walks amongst them on a fine 

 summer's day. 



Forficulodea. — Several notes, worthy of record were handed 

 to me during 1916 in connection with the earwigs, although 

 some of them refer to the previous year. Writing on March 11th 

 Mr. 0. Whittaker told me that when in camp with his regiment 

 at Exning in Suffolk, not far from Newmarket, Labia minor, 

 Linn., occurred very commonly during October and the end 

 of September, 1915, the ground outside his tent often revealing 

 the presence of at least three per square foot. He took two 

 dozen in a couple of minutes one evening as he sat at tea, 

 and still there were more. This was the first occasion on which 

 he had seen the species at all plentifully — in fact, previously he 

 had taken only a couple of single examples. My own captures 

 have been single ones also, and perhaps not a dozen in all. 

 Later Mr. Whittaker sent me nineteen of those he captured — six 

 males and thirteen females. 



Writing again on May 19th Mr. Whittaker said that on 

 the 17th inst. he was at Bury St. Edmunds and at 5.30 p.m. 

 there were dozens upon dozens of Labia minor on the wing. 

 About halfway back to Newmarket the Eed Cross car broke 

 down, and he had to wait for an hour by the road side until 

 another car came. It was a beautiful evening and still more 



