INSECTS' 



Sussex is one of the largest of the English counties, and with the 

 exception of Hampshire, Kent, and possibly Norfolk, probably con- 

 tains a larger number of species of insecta than any other English 

 county. 



The richness of its insect fauna ^ may be accounted for by its varied 

 geological formations, its long coast line, its large extent of common or 

 waste land, amounting to nearly 24,000 acres, and its numerous and ex- 

 tensive woodlands. 



Although the great forests have during the last few hundred years 

 been almost destroyed a large extent of moor and woodland still exists in 

 the northern part of the county in Ashdown Forest, Tilgate Forest, 

 Worth Forest, and St. Leonards Forest between Three Bridges and 

 Horsham, making up with the other woods and plantations of the county, 

 nearly 114,000 acres. 



ORTHOPTERA 



Earwigs, Cockroaches, Grasshoppers and Crickets 



The Orthoptera have been so little collected in Sussex that the list 

 is very meagre, and observation will without doubt add to the number of 

 species known to occur in the county. Hampshire and Kent are two 

 of our richest counties from the point of view of the orthopterist, and 

 so Sussex, situated between them, should at least possess some of the 

 more uncommon forms that have been found in them. Labidura riparia. 

 Pall., has yet to be recorded for the Sussex coast, but has been taken 

 both in Hampshire and in Kent ; Apterygida albipennis, Meg. (= media, 

 Hagenb.), an earwig very rare in England, has been taken in Kent, and 

 will very likely be discovered one day in Sussex. It should be sought for 

 by sweeping among shrubs and flowers, especially in marshy places or by 

 the side of streams. Mecostethus grossus, L., our finest grasshopper, is 

 quite common in some boggy places in the neighbouring county of 

 Hampshire, and might well be found also in Sussex. A common and 

 widely distributed grasshopper, Tettix subulatus, L., has not been actually 



* The sequence of the orders here followed is that adopted by Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., in the Cam- 

 bridge 'Natural History, 1889-92. — H.G. 



3 We have to express our cordial thanks for valuable assistance received to Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S. ; 

 Mr. Joseph Anderson, F.E.S. ; the Rev. C. D. Ash, M.A. ; Mr. C. G. Barrett, F.E.S. ; the Rev. E. 

 N. Bloomfield, M.A., F.E.S. ; Mr. Malcolm Burr, B.A., F.L.S. ; Mr. E. A. Butler, B.A., B.Sc. ; Mr. 

 W. M. Christy, M.A., F.L.S. ; Mr. D. A. Edgcll ; Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, M.A., F.Z.S. ; the Rev. 

 Canon Fowler, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. ; Mr. J. H. A. Jenncr, F.E.S. ; Mr. A. Lloyd, F.C.S. ; Mr. W. J. 

 Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. ; Prof. Raphael Mcldola, F.R.S. ; Mr. Claude Morley, F.E.S. ; Mr. Edward 

 Saunders, F.R.S. ; Captain Savilc Rcid, R.E., F.Z.S. ; and Mr. A. C. Vine.— H.A.D. and H.G. 



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