146 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
possess another female of good size, which was taken in Kew 
Gardens four or five years ago. Since this species appears to be 
chiefly carnivorous in its habits, it is probably more useful than 
otherwise to the gardener (see above). The egg (fig. 2) is small 
for so large a grasshopper, its length being about 2°2 mm. and 
width about ‘8 mm. It is nearly, but not quite, a cylinder with 
somewhat hemispherical ends, and the surface is slightly, but 
regularly, roughened. Of the colour I cannot speak, as the eggs 
examined were extracted from the body of a dead female. 
Kingston-on-Thames: March, 1914. 
SOME DORSET HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
By 2. Ee Haines, Dapa., MR.C:8., L.R.C.P: 
Tue following list of Hemiptera-Heteroptera found by me 
during the last few years in this neighbourhood may be of 
interest :—-T'hyreocoris scarabeoides, L. Once in numbers. 
Podops inuncta, F. West Lulworth, common on the chalk. 
Schirus luctuosus, M. & R. On the coast. Gnathoconus albo- 
marginatus, Goeze. Two, May, 1913, at West Lulworth. Palo- 
mena prasina, L., Piezodorus lituratus, F., Pentatoma rufipes, L., 
Picromerus bidens, L., Rhacognathus punctatus, L., Zicrona 
cwrulea, L. Common on the heathlands. Acanthosoma hemor- 
rhoidale, L., A. interstinctum, L., Elasmostethus griseus, L. The 
females may be commonly found with their young, in June, on 
Betula, near the outskirts of woods. Hnoplops scapha, F. Four, 
last August and September, at Ringstead. Syromastes marginatus, 
L., Coreus denticulatus, Scop., Stenocephalus agilis, Scop. Very 
common on the coast. Corizus maculatus, Fieb. One at Tad- 
noll on Sept. 10th, 1908. Neides tipularius, L. One in my 
garden, May 2nd, 1908. Nysius lineatus, Cost. One at Holme, 
near Wareham, on August 29th, 1912. Cymus glandicolor, 
Hahn, C. claviculus, Fall., Ischnorhynchus geminatus, Fieb. Very 
common on the heaths. Heterogaster urtice, F., Rhyparochromus 
pretextatus, H. §., R. chiragra, F., Ischnocoris angustulus, Boh., 
Macrodema micropterum, Curt., Stygnus pedestris, Fall., Aphanus 
pin, L., Drymus sylvaticus, F., D. piceus, Flor. One at Hast 
Stoke on Oct. 1st, 1908. Notochilus contractus, H. 8., Scolopo- 
stethus affinis, Schill., S. thomsoni, Reut., S. decoratus, Hahn, 
Serenthia leta, Fall., Campylostira verna, Fall., Dictyonota tri- 
cornis, Schr., Monanthia humuli, F., Aradus depressus, F., Hydro- 
metra stagnorum, L., Velia currens, F., Gerris lacustris, L., 
Coranus subapterus, De G., Nabis lativentris, Boh., N. major, 
Cost., N. flavomarginatus, Scholtz., N. limbatus, Dahlb., N. 
lineitus, Dahlb., N. rugosus, L., N. ericetorum, Scholtz., Salda 
