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photograph, Mr. G. T, Lyle was kind enough to take and give to 

 me a negative of the insect (x 2 4) which is here reproduced.* 



Mr. J. J. Walker {in. litt. November 9th, 1910) informed me 

 that he had twice taken Forficula lesnei singly during 1910, at 

 Cothill, near Abingdon, in Berkshire, on September 18th and 

 20th respectively. [Writing later he stated that on October 3rd, 

 1907, he took a female by sweeping on Merrow Downs, between 

 Guildford and Newlands Corner, Surrey.] 



Blattodea. — Ectohiiis lapponicus was taken near Ramnor, in 

 the New Forest, on August 9th, At Holm Hill, in the New 

 Forest, on August 21st, when breaking up and examining the 

 trunk of a small dead burnt pine, I met with two or three speci- 

 mens of Ectobiiis panzeri. At the same time a Scolopendra 

 (centipede) was captured, holding one of these cockroaches, 

 which apparently it had just caught. Though not dead, the 

 cockroach moved but little ; possibly the centipede may have 

 paralysed it, but that I cannot say. While I watched, the centi- 

 pede seemed to be using its poison-jaws much as if they were 

 legs. The cockroach was held beneath the captor's body by 

 several of the anterior pairs of legs, ventral surface upwards ; I 



••' It will probably be noticed that the insect when photographed was in 

 a slightly dama^ied condition as regards head and thorax. 



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