144 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
following species were met with:—M. grossus, O. viridulus, 
C. parallelus, Stauroderus bicolor, G. maculatus, O. rufipes, Tetrix 
bipunctatus, Nemobius sylvestris, P. griseo-aptera, and Metrioptera 
brachyptera. 
On September 9th a visit was paid to Bookham Common, 
Surrey, to get Gomphocerus rufus, this being the only locality in 
which I have found it. A spot of no great extent by the side of 
one of the string of ponds near Bookham Station yielded 
specimens, and it could be seen nowhere else. We took eighteen 
examples. Even at this late date several were still but nymphs, 
and two of these, together with three imagines, were brought 
home alive. On the morning of September 14th one of the 
nymphs was found to have cast its skin, thereby becoming an 
imago (female), and, judging by its appearance, the change had 
occurred but a short time before the imago was noticed. Those 
brought home alive fed on grass, as did others of the British 
Truxalide that I have kept in captivity. Thirteen that were put 
in a laurel-bottle, with perhaps a spot or two of benzine, were of 
a brilliant crimson colour when removed a day or two later, and 
this tint to some extent they retained when dry. An egg is 
illustrated in fig. 1 to a scale ten times 
natural size. Its length is 4 mm., and 
P width in position drawn about ‘9 mm. 
If this may be called a lateral view, 
the dorsal width is about1 mm. It is 
somewhat rounder at the upper end as 
drawn, and the lower end turns very 
slightly to the left. The surface is a 
little wrinkled transversely. The ex- 
amples used were extracted from a dead 
female and put in spirit and water, so I 
am not able to say anything about the 
1 2 natural colour. 
1. Egg of Gomphocerus rufus Wi iV1 
2. Egg ai Dizithawimena ee es f Mr. B. 8. Williams sent me a ae 
(Both x 10) emale of Leptophyes punctatissima, whic 
he took from a fence in a wood at Hast 
Finchley, N., on September 16th. 
Somewhat late records are :—The little earwig (Labia minor), 
a male and two females taken by Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, on 
October 2nd, at Glemsford in Suffolk; S. bicolor (one very dark) 
and M. brachyptera, taken by Mr. KE. Step, on the occasion of 
the Fungus Foray of the South London Entomological and 
Natural History Society, at Oxshott, on October 4th; one 
Stenobothrus lineatus, a local species, taken as nymph, by Mr. 
T. A. Chapman at Buckland, Surrey, on October 18th, which 
became an imago on October 21st; G. rufus, a female taken by 
Mr. Chapman at Buckland on October 81st. 
Considerable interest attaches to the capture, in Kent, of a 
