96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
In the warm tortoise-house at the Zoological Gardens crickets were 
chirping merrily in the afternoon of November 26th. Icould see 
none, but an attendant said that numbers were in the house. 
Presumably they were Gryllus domesticus, Linn. In dwelling- 
houses this cricket seems undoubtedly to be getting less common ; 
in fact it is necessary to revise our estimate of its frequency. 
LocustopEa (long-horned grasshoppers).—In August three 
male imagines and a female nymph of Metrioptera brachyptera, 
Linn. were taken on Studland Heath, Dorset (Stowell). Female 
imagines—one on September 7th and one on September 9th— 
were secured in the New Forest (Lucas), while on the latter date 
two female imagines were taken at Bearsted in Kent (Green). 
Conocephalus dorsalis, Latr. was found to be in great abundance 
at Studland Heath in August, and a male imago and two female 
nymphs were captured (Stowell) ; while the species was reported 
as fairly common at Wicken Fen on August 15th (Lyle); a 
female sent thence came through to mealive. Leptophyes puncta- 
tissima, Bose., Meconema thalassinum, De Geer, and Metrioptera 
brachyptera, Linn. were taken in 1920 at the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s Gardens at Wisley (Fox-Wilson). : 
AcRIDIoDEA (short-horned grasshoppers).—In the New Forest 
on May 21st a mature female of V'etrix bipunctatus, Linn. was 
taken of a nearly uniform yellowish-grey colour, the two spots 
from which its name is derived being scarcely visible. It was 
taken mature at Horsley, Surrey, on June 12th (Lucas). The 
species was captured in the Royal Horticulture Society’s Gardens 
at Wisley in 1920 (Fox-Wilson). Gomphocerus rufus, Linn. 
was found of a rosy tint in Juniper Valley, Boxhill, Surrey, on 
October 10th. G. maculatus, Thunb. was taken there on the 
same day ; it was first met with mature, female, on June 21st 
in the New Forest (Lucas). On September 10th I went in search 
of Mecostethus grossus, Linn. to Silverstream Bog in the New 
Forest. I saw but few; they were small and perhaps all males, 
the two I captured certainly being of that sex. Plusia gamma, 
Linn. kept flying up and deceiving one at the moment, though 
the mistake was soon discovered, since M. grossus flies in a 
straight line while the moth does not. The next day no 
examples were seen at Duck-hole Bog. Stenobothrus lineatus, 
Panz. was met with on one occasion only—in Juniper Valley, 
Boxhill, on October 10th (Lucas). Omocestus rufipes, Zett., 
female, was noted on September 20th in the New Forest (Lucas). 
O. viridulus, Linn., female, was found mature in the New Forest 
on June 21st (Lucas). On August 8th, female, and on Sep- 
tember 12th, male, the species was found at Rainow in Cheshire 
(Neave). Stauroderus bicolor, Charp. was taken on the White 
Horse Hill near Sutton Poyntz in Dorset on September 29th. 
Both sexes of quite a dark grey tint were found at Esher 
Common on October 7th; the species was found there again on 
