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(=cerci). They are long and slender, but the chief peculiarity 

 is that they are soldered together at the base, while the distal 

 part seems to be jointed to the basal, which, if this is the 

 meaning of the peculiarity, is of interest in connection with the 

 fact that the cerci of other Orthoptera are regularly jointed. 

 Commander Walker has succeeded in adding somewhat to our 

 knowledge of the distribution of Forficula lesnei. He was kind 

 enough to give me a female which he took at Queendown 

 Warren, near Chatham, Kent, probably in 1899 ; while he tells 

 me that he took a female in moss at Streatley, Berks, on the 

 21st October, 1905. This second specimen was no doubt hyber- 

 nating. 



As regards the short-horned grasshoppers (Acridians), the 

 little hybernating species, Tettix bipunctatus, was found in the 

 New Forest on April 1st. Of the rest, Gomphocerus maculatus 

 was the first that I met with mature, the locality being near 

 Oxshott, Surrey, and the date July 17th. On the downs near 

 Clandon, Surrey, grasshoppers were seldom mature on July 

 20th. Mecostethus grossus still continues to show itself in new 

 localities in the New Forest ; in fact, one seldom examines in 

 August one of the numerous bogs without meeting with this 

 large and handsome species. Its habits are most interesting to 

 watch in freedom, while, if fed on grass and not kept in too 

 dry a place, it will live for some time and its habits may be 

 watched, in captivity. Stenobothrus rufipes, of both sexes, was 

 found in a ride in Perry Wood, in the New Forest, on August 

 9th. This species in captivity also feeds readily off grass, eating 

 along the margin of the leaf. One was kept alive thus for six or 

 seven weeks, and it only succumbed about October 14th. Of 

 S. bicolor, both sexes were taken at Hurst Castle on August 7th. 

 The much less common species, S. elegans, was met with twice 

 in the New Forest. On August 8th a female was taken near 

 Highland Water, just beyond Queen's Mead, and it was found 

 much more commonly at Matley Bog on August 23rd. No other 

 grasshoppers seemed to be present with it at the latter locality, 

 where more females were noticed than males. Many of the 

 former were green, but some were of a rather rich brown colour ; 

 the streak on each side, both on wings and pronotum, is often 

 very conspicuous in this sex, in which also the elytra do not 

 reach to the extremity of the abdomen. The males are more 

 active than the females. Mr. A. H. Hamm took the species at 

 the Deal sand-hills, where the specimens were brownish in 

 colour, harmonising with the soil, as the green ones did with 

 the grass in the New Forest. S. parallelus was taken near 

 Warwick on September 10th, and on Arbrook Common, Surrey, 

 on October 1st. Gomphocerus maculatus was noted by myself at 

 Need's Ore, Hants, on August 10th ; while Colonel Yerbury gave 

 me a specimen taken at Nairn, in Scotland, on the 3rd. The 



