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C. W. Bracken met with a few in marshy places at Newquay, in 

 Cornwall. 



On .June 21st, on the occasion of the South London Natural 

 History Society's excursion to Boldermere, very young nymphs 

 of Meconema thalassinum, De Geer were beaten from rhododen- 

 drons (F. M. Carr). A male taken by G. T. Lyle on August 27th 

 at Gog Magog Hills, in Cambridgeshire, and sent to me. had a 

 malformed elytron. On October 18th, at Stamer Park, near 

 Falmer, in Sussex, six females were noticed on beech trunks from 

 about 18 in. to 10 ft. above the ground : the specimen 18 in. up 

 the trunk appeared to have been ovipositing in a crack in the 

 bark (A. Sich). 



In the New Forest on August 3rd I swept a male Lepto- 

 })hyes punctatissima, Bosc. probably off sallow, by the side of 

 Blaekwater above Queen's Bower. It was not quite mature, but 

 was found to have become so by the morning of August 16th. No 

 cast skin was noticed in the box containing it, so presumably it 

 was eaten. The long hind legs, though apparently of full size, 

 were bent and seemed to be of little use. The captive was fed on 

 rose-leaves from the garden. A curious habit it had of putting 

 its tarsi in its mouth, perhaps to moisten them so that they 

 might cling the better to the surface on which it was walking. 

 No doubt this would be a useful expedient for the creature when 

 it was progressing upside down on the under sm'face of the 

 glass lid of its box. On August 13th I took one at the foot of 

 the cliffs near Mudeford, Hants. The species was also found at 

 Colchester, Suffolk, in September, and in a garden at Sudbury 

 (B. S. H.), as well as at Hassocks in Sussex (Sich). 



AcRiDioDEA. — On April 22nd, at Marlborough Deeps, in the 

 New Forest, Tetrix subidatus, Linn, was about in considerable 

 numbers, but perhaps not so commonly as I saw it there in 1918 ; 

 or possibly it did not move so readily, for, though the weather 

 was usually bright, there was a cool air. I caught by hand two 

 males and fifteen females, and missed a great many. The small 

 dark males are very difficult indeed to follow when they leap, or 

 to see upon the ground ; so the disproportion of the sexes may 

 not be so great as from these numbers would appear. When on 

 the ground most of the females are also well protected by 

 coloration. Perhaps these grasshoppers leap first and then open 

 their wings as they proceed. Females with fiddle-shaped pale 

 dorsal marking (var. stijUfer, Luc.) and others with pale longi- 

 tudinal dorsal streak were taken, though most were of a fairly 

 uniform brown tint. At Newquay C. W. Bracken found a very 

 small colony in a marsh, but he thinks this insect is b.y no 

 means common in the extreme south-west of England. One had 

 a white line along the centre of the pronotum and the edges of 

 the elytra. 



On April 18th a small conspicuously coloured male imago of 



