144 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



following species were met with : — M. grossus, O. viridulus, 

 C. parallelus, Stauroderus hicolor, G. maculatus, 0. rujipes, Tetrix 

 bipunctatus, Nemohius sylvestris, P. griseo-aptera, and Metrioptera 

 hrachyptera. 



On SeiDtember 9th a visit was paid to Bookham Common, 



Surrey, to get Gomphocerus rufus, this being the only locality in 



which I have found it. A spot of no great extent by the side of 



one of the string of ponds near Bookham Station yielded 



specimens, and it could be seen nowhere else. We took eighteen 



examples. Even at this late date several were still but nymphs, 



and two of these, together with three imagines, were brought 



home alive. On the morning of September 14th one of the 



nymphs was found to have cast its skin, thereby becoming an 



imago (female), and, judging by its appearance, the change had 



occurred but a short time before the imago was noticed. Those 



brought home alive fed on grass, as did others of the British 



Truxalidse that I have kept in captivity. Thirteen that were put 



in a laurel-bottle, with perhaps a spot or two of benzine, were of 



a brilliant crimson colour when removed a day or two later, and 



this tint to some extent they retained when dry. An egg is 



illustrated in fig. 1 to a scale ten times 



•^ natural size. Its length is 4 mm., and 



/ \ /^ width in position drawn about "9 mm. 



If this may be called a lateral view, 



the dorsal width is about 1 mm. It is 



somewhat rounder at the upper end as 



drawn, and the lower end turns very 



slightly to the left. The surface is a 



little wrinkled transversely. The ex- 



I amples used were extracted from a dead 



/ female and put in spirit and water, so I 



\y am not able to say anything about the 



1 2 natural colour. 



1. Egg of Goviphocerus rufus ^y. g g WilHams seut me a living 



2. Egg oiDiestrammenaviarmorata n , ~ -r ■ ■ i • i 



(Both X 10) lemale 01 Leptojmyes punctatissima,vfhicii 



he took from a fence in a wood at East 

 Finchley, N., on September 16th, 



Somewhat late records are : — The little earwig {Labia minor), 

 a male and two females taken by Mr. J. K. le B. Tomlin, on 

 October 2nd, at Glemsford in Suffolk ; S. bicolor (one very dark) 

 and M. brachyptera, taken by Mr. E. Step, on the occasion of 

 the Fungus Foray of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society, at Oxshott, on October 4th ; one 

 Stenobothrus lineatus, a local species, taken as nymph, by Mr. 

 T. A. Chapman at Buckland, Surrey, on October 18th, which 

 became an imago on October 21st ; G. rufus, a female taken by 

 Mr. Chapman at Buckland on October 31st. 



Considerable interest attaches to the capture, in Kent, of a 



