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smooth and polished, the extreme base in middle rough ; tegulse 

 piceous ; wings dusky, nervures and stigma dark fuscous ; lower side 

 of first s. m. strongly arched ; first r. n. meeting first t. c; legs black 

 with white hair, the femora polished ; anterior and middle knees 

 yellow ; anterior tibiae light yellowish-ferruginous in front ; tarsi 

 ferruginous apically ; abdomen dull black, segments 2 to 4 with very 

 large transversely elongated yellow triangular or cuneiform patches 

 basally on each side ; fifth segment with a pair of quadrate chrome 

 yellow patches, separated by a black band ; apex of fifth segment 

 with black hair. 



Hah. Brisbane, Queensland, October 17th, 1918 (Hacker; 

 Queensl. Mus., 105). A very remarkable species, quite unlike 

 any previously known. 



BRITISH ORTHOPTERA IN 1913. 

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



Judging by results, the season of 1913 was a very ordinary 

 one as regards the British Orthoptera. On June 23rd Mr. P. 

 Richards sent me from Seabrook, a small village between 

 Hythe and Sandgate, in Kent, a living female nymph of a large 

 Locustid, presumably Phasgonura vir'idissima. It was captured 

 at Seabrook on June 21st, and Mr. Richards reports that ther-e 

 were a good number in the place. He fed it on flies, which it ate 

 greedily. On the other hand, Mr. C. W. Bracken, writing July 

 21st, says of another Locustid, Pholidoptera griseo-aptera (= T. 

 cinereus), that he fed it on lettuce. Many of our Locustid grass- 

 hoppers are often found to be carnivorous, but how far this habit 

 is natural to them does not seem to be well ascertained, and 

 reports on food that they take most readily would be useful, for 

 it seems likely that some of them at any rate may be good 

 friends to the gardener or agriculturist. 



In the New Forest, on July 5th or 6th, I met with my first 

 mature grasshopper, a male of the Acridian species Chorthippus 

 parallelus. On July 30th the large bog-loving Acridian Meco- 

 stethus grossus was mature in the New Forest, two males being 

 captured on that date near Holm Hill. 



Mr, S. E. Brock has forwarded me a few dates from Linlith- 

 gowshire. He found Oviocestus viridulus stridulating at Drum- 

 shoreland and Riccarton Hills on July 20th, and C. parallelus 

 was heard at the former locality on July 27th. On the next day 

 Gomphocerus macidatus was stridulating at Craigton. A small 

 colony of the last species was found on the south slope of 

 Cockleroy (altitude about 800 ft.), on September 21st. The 

 •' courtship " of the same species was observed at Craigton, on 

 August 8th (vide antea, p. 104). 



In the New Forest, from July 26th to September 8th, the 



