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smooth and polished, the extreme base in middle rough; tegule 
piceous ; wings dusky, nervures and stigma dark fuscous ; lower side 
of first s. m. strongly arched; first r. n. meeting first t. c.; legs black 
with white hair, the femora polished; anterior and middle knees 
yellow; anterior tibie light yellowish-ferruginous in front; tarsi 
ferruginous apically ; abdomen dull black, segments 2 to 4 with very 
large transversely elongated yellow triangular or cuneiform patches 
basally on each side; fifth segment with a pair of quadrate chrome 
yellow patches, separated by a black band; apex of fifth segment 
with black hair. 
Hab. Brisbane, Queensland, October 17th, 1913 (Hacker ; 
Queens]. Mus., 105). A very remarkable species, quite unlike 
any previously known. 
BRITISH ORTHOPTERA IN 19138. 
By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 
Jupaine by results, the season of 1913 was a very ordinary 
one as regards the British Orthoptera. On June 23rd Mr. P. 
Richards sent me from Seabrook, a small village between 
Hythe and Sandgate, in Kent, a living female nymph of a large 
Locustid, presumably Phasgonura viridissima. It was captured 
at Seabrook on June 21st, and Mr. Richards reports that there 
were a good number in the place. He fed it on flies, which it ate 
greedily. On the other hand, Mr. C. W. Bracken, writing July 
21st, says of another Locustid, Pholidoptera griseo-aptera (= T'’. 
cinereus), that he fed it on lettuce. Many of our Locustid grass- 
‘hoppers are often found to be carnivorous, but how far this habit 
is natural to them does not seem to be well ascertained, and 
reports on food that they take most readily would be useful, for 
it seems likely that some of them at any rate may be good 
friends to the gardener or agriculturist. 
In the New Forest, on July 5th or 6th, I met with my first 
mature grasshopper, a male of the Acridian species Chorthippus 
parallelus. On July 30th the large bog-loving Acridian Meco- 
stethus grossus was mature in the New Forest, two males being 
captured on that date near Holm Hill. 
Mr. 8. E. Brock has forwarded me a few dates from Linlith- 
gowshire. He found Omocestus viridulus stridulating at Drum- 
shoreland and Riccarton Hills on July 20th, and C. parallelus 
was heard at the former locality on July 27th. On the next day 
Gomphocerus maculatus was stridulating at Craigton. A small 
colony of the last species was found on the south slope of 
Cockleroy (altitude about 800 ft.), on September 21st. The 
‘courtship’ of the same species was observed at Craigton, on 
August 8th (vide antea, p. 104). 
In the New Forest, from July 26th to September 8th, the 
