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which I usually get the species. On August Slst, although it 

 was not bright at Denny Bog, M. grossvs took to the wing 

 sometimes, and one or two were captured. On Septeml)er Ist 

 I secured a smnll male by the shade-pond at the Apsley Passage 

 of Oberwater, and feel certain I saw another specimen. 



Stenohothrus Jincatns, Panzer, was scarce on October 24th 

 near Dorking, but two males and one female were taken 

 (Chapman). Omoccstus viridubis, Linn., was captured at Arthog 

 in Merionethshire on August 5th (Nevinson). 



Specimens of Staaroderus bicolor, Charp., were taken at 

 Arthog on August 5th (Nevinson). Three of these — two males 

 and one female — had blackish dorsal surface, including elytra, 

 and yellowish legs. On August 28th I took a female similar 

 to these near the Verderer's Bridge over Blackwater in the 

 New Forest. On the dorsal surface the head, thorax and fore 

 part of the elytra were nearly black, the hind part of the last 

 becoming greyer. The legs and sides were yellow-ochre, the 

 under-surface greenish-yellow, the antenna pale and somewhat 

 rosy. The arrangement of the yellow and dark brown colours 

 in longitudinal lines gives this form a very distinctive 

 appearance, and it may suitably be named var. longitudinalis. 

 Another female taken at the same time and place was of a 

 beautiful dull rosy tint above aud yellowish-green below. A 

 specimen, striped with pale yellow, was brought away from the 

 shore between Barton and Mudelord on August 23rd ; it was 

 a striking and conspicuous form, suitably coloured for protection 

 on the pale sand of the locality. On September 2nd, in the 

 damp, somewhat boggy ground facing Holmsley Station in 

 the New Forest, I found Chorthippus elegans, Charp., pretty 

 plentiful, and took a good number of both sexes, including a 

 female with bright rosy dorsal surface — head, thorax and elytra. 

 The antennae also were partly ros}^ 



As mentioned above the last date for the season with 

 which I am acquainted was October 26th, when Gomphocerus 

 maculatus, Thunb., was met with on Netley Heath in Surrey. 



Kingston -on -Thames, 

 Julv, 1919. 



THE COTTESWOLD APJON. 



By H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 



I HAD never seen Lyccena avion alive in England, and when 

 I received instructions to transfer myself to Gloucester towards 

 the end of June visions of the Large Blue loomed larger in 

 imagination. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, writing to me on the 

 eve of my departure, rather mitigated the glory of my dream. 

 " The form on the hills " at a certain place he was good enough 



