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Larrid.se. 

 Dinetus pictus (Fabr.). 

 Sphex guttata, Fabricius, 1793 ; not of Gmelin, 1790. 

 The name D. pictus, commonly used by authors, is wrongly 

 made to give way to D. guttatus in Dalla Torre's catalogue. 



Crabronid^e. 

 Crabro dives schenckii, n. n. 

 Crabro pictus, Schenck, Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau, 1857 ; 

 not of Fabricius, 1793 (=Dinetus). 



Solenius rufipes (Lep.). 

 Crabro rufipes (Lep.) Smith, was described under Ceratocolus. 

 If it is left in Crabro it must take the name C. excavatus, Fox, 

 because of C. rufipes, Fabr., 1787 (? = Cerceris tuberculata) ; but 

 if we follow Ashmead in placing it in Solenius, the original name 

 remains. 



OKTHOPTERA IN 1905 AND 1906. 

 By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



Neither in 1905 nor in 1906 did anything of special interest 

 with regard to our Orthoptera come under my ken ; still, as the 

 sum of our knowledge is made up of details, it will not be out of 

 place to put on record even the trivialities that have been noted, 

 seeing especially that it is in consequence of such small details 

 not being recorded that our knowledge of this order is so incom- 

 plete. There are, in fact, some counties in England (Shropshire, 

 for instance) of whose orthopterous fauna we seem to have abso- 

 lutely no records whatever, and yet surely there are some 

 naturalists who could tell us at least if the common earwig and 

 the kitchen cockroach exist there, for we cannot be said to know 

 that they do. 



1905. On February 25th male specimens of Forficula auri- 

 cularia were found inside dead and hollow stems of deadly night- 

 shade (Atropa belladonna) on the Roman Road, near Leather- 

 head. Specimens found hybernating are usually females, but 

 this find seems to indicate that the males hybernate also. Of 

 this species one or two aberrations were met with. A dark 

 female was taken by Mr. F. M. Carr in the New Forest in April. 

 Mr. R. A. R. Priske kindly gave me a male with aberrant forceps 

 (the left branch being normal, but the right as large as in var. 

 forcipata), which he took at Deal in September. Amongst a 

 number of earwigs found in a garden in the town of Warwick 

 (September 7th-llth) was a male with very abnormal forceps 



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