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approached the food, apparently being always perfectly certain 

 with regard to the direction in which it lay. After living in 

 captivity over four months it succumbed during the Christmas 

 season. 



In September Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin bottled for me a couple 

 of Labia minor at Ledbury, in Herefordshire, but unfortunately 

 a beetle ate them. On the occasion of the South London 

 Society's excursion to Oxshott, on Septem- 

 ber 19th, Mr. W. J. Ashdown found a dead 

 male, and during the Fungus foray of the 

 same Society to Oxshott, on October 3rd, 

 Mr. S. R. Ashby obtained another male. 

 On September 30th Mr. F. M. Dyke cap- 

 tured a male which settled on his hand as 

 he was walking along Southwark Street, near 

 Blackfriars Bridge {vide vol. xli. p. 273). 



Forjicula auricularia, the common earwig, 



seems to be somewhat subject to deformity 



in its callipers, and one so affected, taken in 



kZ^i:S!;^]^. a garden at Teddington, Middlesex, seems 



of sufficient interest to be figured. The right 



branch of the callipers is normal, of the small rounded type ; 



the left is simple, and gives one the impression that the base 



of it is within the creature's abdomen. 



Cockroaches. — ^^Two dark examples of Ectohia panzeri were 

 found on breaking up a decayed tree-stump by the side of 

 Beaulieu River, in the New Forest, on August 14th, and Mr. 

 E. C. Bedwell gave me a female of this species, taken at Deal in 

 August, which had its legs pale except for the knees and parts of 

 the tarsi. On February 17th I received from Mr. H. Bradshaw 

 a lively specimen of Rhyparohia mederce, taken the same day in 

 a greengrocer's shop in Berrylands Road, Snrbiton. It was 

 found in some sea-kale beneath bananas which came from 

 the Canary Islands. From Mr. G. T. Lyle I received a speci- 

 men of Leucophcea surinamensis, which was found crawling about 

 on Christmas Day in a hothouse at Bishopstoke, Hants. Is 

 this cockroach to become a pest in warm plant-houses in this 

 country ? 



LocusTiDs (long-horned grasshoppers), — On August 18th, in 

 the New Forest, some wood-ants {Formica rufa) were trying to 

 carry away so large an insect SiS Leptophyes punctatissima. Could 

 they possibly have succeeded ? 



Mr. Tomlin obtained Mecoiiema varium in his sweeping-net 

 at Streatley on October 2nd. It was obtained from a fence in 

 Fassett Road, Kingston-on-Thames, September 13th, and was 

 captured on the South London Society's excursion to the Oxshott 

 district on September 19th. The female of a pair taken on this 



