130 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Tetrix bipunctatus, Linn, jumped into the water at Duck-hole 

 Bog, in the New Forest. It had pale ochreous antennsB and a 

 mid-dorsal longitudinal band of the same colour, this band being 

 edged with very dark brown about the middle. The rest of the 

 colouring was faily uniform brown of moderate depth. The next 

 day, on the other hand, I took at Rhinefield a female imago, in 

 colour dark brown mottled somewhat with other! shades of brown, 

 but really very uniform in colour. On April 22nd, when its con- 

 gener was so plentiful, one only was taken at Marlborough Deeps 

 — a female almost cream-coloured with slightly darker mottling — 

 perhaps the palest I have seen. At Boxhill, on May Slst, a large 

 dark female with some whitish markings on the hind femora was 

 secured. Near Boldermere, on June 21st, a very small dark 

 male was taken mature, but this could scarcely yet have belonged 

 to the new brood. 



On July 5th a female Gowphocerus maadatus, Thunb. was 

 taken mature near Horsley, in Surrey. On the 23rd of the same 

 month, near Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, on very black 

 ground, due to a heath fire, this insect was remarkably dark — in 

 some cases almost black, so that no differentiation was apparent 

 between it and the black soil. Again, at Blackheath, Surrey, on 

 September 14th, close to a large burnt area, specimens were taken 

 very black indeed. One could not help feeling that there was in 

 each case some connection between this melanism and the very 

 black surface of the burnt heath. 



In the late summer I met with Mecostethus grossus, Linn, in 

 several parts of the New Forest. On July 28th, at Duck-hole 

 Bog, I took a male. The next day I took two more males in the 

 same locality. Perhaps they were only just becoming imagines, 

 although the weather certainly was not very favourable on both 

 occasions, sunshine being only intermittent and the air at other 

 times cool. On the 29th I caught and released a nymph. On 

 August 6th, at the same bog, a few more were seen. I expected a 

 greater number, as the daj' was warm and bright, but possibly 

 even yet they were not generally mature. The next day, at 

 Highland Water Bog, a good number were seen, and I took a 

 male and a female. On August 27th, at a bog near Rhinefield, 

 a female was captured, and a tine female was secured on September 

 1st at Crockford Bog. On September 5th, at Silverstream Bog, 

 it did not seem very common, or perhaps it did not get up 

 readily. I took three males and two females. Neither of the 

 females, I believe, rose on the wing. 



On July 24th W. Evans saw two Omocestiis viridulus, Linn, at 

 Hillend, in the Pentlands. 



On August 13th, at the foot of sandy cliffs near Mudeford, 

 amongst sparse vegetation, chiefly brambles on the cliff-foot and 

 marram-grass on the sand, were large numbers of Stauroderus 

 bicolor, Charp., generally well assimilating in colouring with the 



