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fore part of the dorsal surface, that is, head, pronotum, and base of 

 elytra. It is an expert " songster," and will sing in captivity, its 

 song being often more loud than pleasant. P. viridLsshna, is no 

 doubt naturally a vegetable feeder, but it readily turns cannibal. 

 It will bite fiercely when handled, and its powerful jaws are no 

 trifling weapons, particularly as an offensive fluid is discharged 

 from the mouth when the creature is angry. The great green 

 grasshopper often comes to feed on the lepidopterist's "sugar" and 

 also catches any moths that may come in its way. This grass- 

 hopper should be sought for on low herbage, nettles, furze, etc. It 

 is local, but no doubt common in places, especially in the South of 

 England. It has been recorded for : — Scilly Isles, Cornwall, Devon, 

 Somerset, Dorset, Hants, Isle of Wight, Surrey, Oxon, Berks, 

 Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, Herts, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hunts, 

 Northants, Yorkshire and Cumberland. Glamorgan is the only 

 county indicated for Wales, while there are no records for either 

 Scotland or Ireland. The species is well distributed over Europe, 

 and occurs in North Africa, Asia Minor, and elsewhere. 



Tettigonia Yerruoivora" Linn. (The Wart-biter). It is unfor- 

 tunate that the finest of our locustids should be at the same time 

 the least common. Stephens ("Illus.," vol. iv.), says that it "once 

 occurred in great plenty in a field near Rochester in September, 

 where it was observed by Professor Henslow, to whom I am indebted 

 for fine examples." Of the brown form, biufilei, Curtis, he says : 

 " the only examples known of this insect have been taken near 

 Christchurch in the autumn (Curtis says ' .July and August, 1818')f 

 by the late Rev. W. Bingley and Mr. Dale." A male biiKjleii, 

 probably one of Curtis' types, but of the (ireen form (!) is in the 

 Hope Museum (Burr). Mr. C. W. Dale speaks of a tine female 

 (colour not mentioned) taken by his father in the New Forest, July 

 3rd, 1844. Here I might mention that Mr. H. Bath speaks of a var. 

 binglii taken in the New Forest in September, 1891. Mr. Eland 

 Shaw records two green females taken by Mr. H. C. Phillips at St. 

 Margaret's Bay, Kent, in August, 1886, and Mr. H, Bath a green 

 female from Deal in 1889, in which year Burr says two green 

 females were taken at St. Margaret's Bay. Since then Mr. Sandison 

 has taken it in the latter locality, and the late Rev. E. N. Bloom- 

 field informed me that Mr. Gordon Murray took a green female 

 there in 1900. Some seven years ago Burr discovered a colony near 

 Lydden in Kent. He says :— "it requires patience to stalk it down 

 and it chirps only when the sun is hot. Once detected it can easily 

 be followed, as its oily green colour and great long legs make it look 

 like a frog as it makes its huge springs in the long grass." Mr. 

 Porritt found it rare in this locality in 1913. The species occurs 

 all over Europe as well as in Northern Asia. T. vernicivora is a 



* Female figured in " Entomologist" vol. xli., 1908, p. 187. 

 t Some of the records of this species are a little confused ; they perhaps require 



careful sifting. 



