334 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CEdipoda carulescens, L. — Has been taken at Southampton, 

 supposed to have been brought over in garden produce from the 

 Channel Isles, where it is fairly common. 



Pezotettix pedestris (Entora. xxii. 196) is only Stenohothrus 

 paralleliis, Zett. 



Tettix hipunctatus, L. — May be found all the year round, as it 

 hybernates amongst dead leaves. 



Gomphocerus rufus, L. — This is rather a local species, and is 

 recorded by Mr. Eland Shaw (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxv. 420) as 

 occurring at Maidstone, Boxhill, and Reigate. To these localities 

 I may add Battersea Fields, where it was taken early in the 

 century by Samouelle ; and the New Forest, where it was taken by 

 my father on August 12th, 1827, and October 1st, 1830. 



Decticiis verrucivorus, L. — To Mr. Shaw's localities of 

 Rochester, St. Margaret's Bay, and Christchurch (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. xxvi. 97) I may add the New Forest, where a fine male was 

 taken by my father on July 3rd, 1844. 



Platycleis grisea. Fab. — Seems to have a partiality for the 

 rest-harrow {Ononis arvensis). 



Nemobius sylvestris. — This cricket seems to be confined to the 

 New Forest, as I have not heard of its occurrence elsewhere in 

 England. 



Glanvilles Woottou, Nov. 2na, 1895. 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



On Breeding Arotia oaia for Varieties. — For some years past I 

 have reared numbers of this moth, both first and second broods, in the 

 hope, like Mr. George Stanley Morley {a7ite, p. 312), of obtaining 

 "varieties." My departures from the type are two only, and are not 

 worth mentioning when one sees Newman's figures, or the marvellous 

 "tigers" in Mr. Capper's collection at Liverpool. They are both 

 females, and are first-brood specimens. In each the spots and 

 blotches are boldly developed, the basal row of spots on the lower 

 wings forming a broad, black, transverse bar. Now for the upper 

 wings. In No. 1 the chocolate blotches are not of a deep tint ; the 

 central one is three-lobed, the three lobes reaching the costal margin. 

 The pale markings are pure white. No. 2. Chocolate blotches dark ; 

 central one three-lobed, the three lobes reaching the costal margin. 

 The pale markings are ochreous. My experiments have always 

 included rearing from the egg on specific plants, since varieties have 

 been supposed to be the outcome, to some extent, of a somewhat 

 unnatural diet. I have, for example, reared a second brood, all types, 

 on walnut leaves. As I write (Nov. 6th) I have imagines emerging 

 (on a shelf a yard from the kitchen fire) fed up exclusively on elder, 

 but all terribly typical. I see Mr. Morley's first emergence in this 

 brood took place twelve days after spinning up, four days earlier than 

 mine. Many of my larvaB are only in their third stage, and are now 



