172 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



LocusTODEA (]on<];-horned grasshoppers). — On August 23rd, on 

 the shore between Barton and Mudeford, Hants, at the foot of a 

 nearly perpendicular sandy cliff, I found several specimens of 

 Metnoptera albopiuictata, Goeze. The cliff sloped somewhat at 

 the base and there bore a little scattered vegetation (chiefly 

 brambles), and it was amongst this that I caught the grass- 

 hoppers. When disturbed they hopped hurriedly out and were 

 easily turned on to soft sand, where they struggled along with 

 hops of decreasing length, which at length became a crawl. In 

 fact, these usually active insects became almost helpless, and I 

 was able to secure them with my fingers. The dull grey colour 

 of M. albopiuictata agreed well with the surroundings in which 

 these were found. I eviscerated one of the females taken and 

 found several eggs, some being black and apparently ready for 

 laying. Would they be laid in the pand or the very dry, sandy 

 soil? The surroundings seemed decidedly barren for very small 

 newly-hatched nymphs. In shape the egg was cylindrical, with 

 rounded ends, not quite straight, and one end a little more blunt 

 than the other. The length was about 4 mm. and the breadth 

 about '8 mm. Its colour was black (dull yellow when immature) ; 

 the surface was more or less shining, not quite smooth, but 

 without definite markings. A. E. Tonge took a female Phasgonura 

 viridissima. Linn., on October 6th at Westcott rifle-range, near 

 Dorking (Pickett's Hole). He had not met with the species 

 previously in Surrey. When eviscerated it was found to contain 

 some 23 eggs, most of them apparently ready for laying. On 

 October 19th, in the Home Park, Hampton Court, Middlesex, I 

 found on trunks of lime trees two females of Meconema thalas- 

 sinum, De Geer. They were a foot or two from the base of the 

 trees, and probably were there for the purpose of ovipositing. 



AcRiDioDEA (short-horned grasshoppers). — On April 27th I 

 went to Marlborough Deeps in the New Forest to search for 

 Tetr'ix suhulatus, Linn., and found the species to be plentiful, 

 especially in one spot. TKey were on ground rather sparsely 

 covered with short grass, and other small plants near the ponds 

 and damp places. I feel certain that all were mature. As the 

 species was also adult in the autumn, the fact of their hibernating 

 as imagines is established without any doubt. As I had no net 

 I boxed them, or caught them by hand, but found them very 

 difficult to follow (particularly the small dark males), especially 

 as little black spiders were running about on the ground, and a 

 small black fly was sometimes flitting above it, while other small 

 insects kept rising also. In the bright sunshine they got up on 

 the wing in all directions and flew two or three yards, or even 

 more, at a time. It must be true flight, as they could sustain 

 themselves on the wing and turn in the air. The latter they did 

 to avoid some object, or the water as it appeared. They did not, 

 however, mind a " ducking," and swam quite well below the 



