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the skirting and abounding in the crevices of the kitchen table, 

 destroying all kinds of paper and in many ways very troublesome, 

 March 1852," and there is another specimen labelled in the same 

 handwriting, " Mr, Gray Dudley ; taken by him in his garden at the 

 foot of Castle Hill." Reports of this species taken out of doors are 

 rare. It occurs in a wild state in woods in Prussia and Russia, so 

 there is no reason why it should not become settled wild in this 

 country, as it has become firmly established in a domesticated condi- 

 tion. Blatta orientalis, L. — Several specimens unlabelled ; one $ 

 nymph " under bark of tree, 10ft. up, K. G." (? = Kew Gardens). It 

 is rarely that this species is taken out of doors, for it seldom leaves the 

 warm kitchens and hot corners that it loves. It would probably be 

 unable to exist in the natural state in this country. There is one 

 crushed and mutilated nymph, mounted on card with the label "Larva 

 of a lUatta, sent by Mr. Backhouse from Gateshead, as a flea, and 

 exhibited by J. 0. W. at Ent. Soc. as Pulcx imjicrator.'' This is the 

 original type of Westwood's famous mistake. He exhibited this 

 specimen at the Entomological Society {Proc. Ent. Soc, 2nd series, 

 iv., p. 70) in 1857, as a new species of flea, twenty times the size of 

 the largest flea hitherto known ! He corrected his mistake in the 

 following year [op. cit., v., p. 60). There is also a broken ootheca with 

 the label " Egg-pouch of B. orientalu ? Mr. W. Baird in acct. 

 a,mongst ent. scraps. For the parasitic Chalcididae bred see them 

 among Clialddidac.'' I have carefully searched through the drawers 

 of the British Chalcididae and have been through Walker's Mi nion rap/da 

 Chalciditiirii but cannot find the specimens referred to. 



AcRiDioDEA. — Mt'costcthiis (/rnsstis, L. — Five S f-wtl three $ . With- 

 out locality, labelled " Lncnsta jiarijws.'" StenobotJirus lineatns, S. 

 virididus, S. rufipes. — Several specimens with no interesting labels. S. 

 bicolor, Charp.^Many specimens without labels. One ^ labelled 

 "cnfci/ytTrt," and another <? " Isle of Purbeck, 1830. L. ruhicimda.'' 

 This is apparently the pink form known as purpurasccm, Fieb. The 

 name mhicunda has usually been referred to 8. virididus., of which a 

 reddish form is sometimes taken. 8. paralleling, Zett. — Several 

 nymphs, and one empty nymph-skin, " Blenheim Park, 1832." 

 (Jomphuccriis sibiricitfi, L. — One ^ unlabelled, Avhich is most probably 

 Stephens' type, said to have been taken at Netley. G. riifH^, L. — One 

 <? unlabelled. (/. maculatitfi, Thunb. — One ^ " Devil's Ditch, 

 Newmarket Heath, July 2nd, 1833. J. C. Dale." Pachntylm iniiira- 

 torinR, L. — There are four specimens of undoubted iniiiratnriKs, showing 

 that this species has really occurred so far west as this country. One 

 male is unlabelled, another " Littlehampton, Sussex, 1846, J. 0. W." 

 One ? " alive near Oxford, J. 0. W." and a second ? " Ct. alive near 

 Chepstow, September 16th, 1857." [There are no specimens of P. 

 danicas, L.] . Sclmtoccrcaperei/rina, Oliv. — Two specimens, one labelled 

 " F. Bond, Esq., near Falmouth, a number of specimens near 

 Plymouth," the other " Cornwall, F. Bond, Esq., 1870." A good 

 many examples of this locust were taken in Britain in 1869, but I do 

 not think any have been recorded for the following year. Tetti.r 

 subulatus, L. — " Cambridge." Some are labelled " bipuiictatuK." T. 

 bipunctatua, L. — About 30 specimens without labels. 



LocusTODEA. — LeptopJn/e.s punctatissima, Bosc. — A number of 

 unlabelled specimens. One female " caught October 1st, Coombe 



