44 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Colonel J. W. Yerbury sent me several common earwigs 

 (Forficula auricularia) — a female found walking about on the 

 sand at the sand-dunes near Studland, Dorset ; and two males 

 and five females from South Haven Point, Dorset, where they 

 were apparently common under fallen soil and roots of heather 

 on the seashore : the males had rather long, slender callipers. 

 Mr. S. E. Brock reports F. auricularia as universal in Linlithgow- 

 shire. C. Adams sent me from Parkstone, Dorset, early in 

 September, two nymphs of F. auricularia and a var. forcipata 

 of the same species. Mr. Whittaker reports F. auricularia from 

 Coventry, in Warwickshire, as was of course to be expected. 



Blattodea. — A specimen of Ectobius lapponicus was taken 

 at Penslake, Surrey, on June 15th by Mr. F. M. Carr, on the 

 occasion of the South London Society's excursion. I received 

 a female from Mr. G. T. Lyle, who said it was common at sugar, 

 in Holland's Wood in the New Forest, on July 6th. On July 

 12th he sent me a male imago, swept from rushes in a damp 

 spot on a heath. There were also two tiny nymphs, which 

 perhaps belonged to the same species. On August 1st an 

 extremely dark Ectobius panzeri, var. nigripes, was taken at 

 Hincheslea Bog, in the New Forest. Blatta orientalis was one 

 of a few Orthoptera which Mr. 0. Whittaker was able to report 

 from Coventry. 



Gryllodea. — Mr. C. W. Bracken tells me that a full-grown 

 male example of Grijllotalpa gryllotalpa was taken alive on the 

 sandhills at St. Enodoc near St. Minver, North Cornwall, during 

 the week ending December 20th last. This capture is particularly 

 interesting, as it goes to prove that the Mole Cricket hibernates 

 in the perfect form. Both imagines and small nymphs of the 

 Wood Cricket, Nemobius sylvestris, were found at Hurst Hill, in 

 the New Forest, on September 8th. This cricket, also, is some- 

 times found in the winter as an imago. 



Locustodea. — On July 9th Colonel J. W. Yerbury found 

 Conocephalus dorsalis very immature at Walton-on-the-Naze : 

 they were associated with Carex on the land side of the sea- 

 wall. On August 28th Mr. G. T. Lyle found the Great Green 

 Grasshopper, Phasgonura viridissima, plentiful and noisy by the 

 side of the Avon at Christchurch, Hants ; on September 21st he 

 met with it in bramble bushes at Wyke Regis near Weymouth, 

 and the next day at Osmington Mills on furze bushes at the top 

 of the cliff. Writing on September 10th Mr. G. T. Porritt sent 

 me a living specimen of Platycleis roeselii, which he took at 

 Trusthorpe on the Lincolnshire coast (Wallis Kew's old locality). 

 During the previous fortnight he took a fair number of P. roeselii 

 there, notwithstanding the atrocious entomological weather, and 

 would probably have got considerably more had the weather been 

 anything like favourable. All his specimens, without exception, 

 had the semi-circular border round the side flaps of the pronotum 



