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sluggish. The next morning it was dead, and one of the 

 Locustids was feeding on it (vide Entom. vol. xliv. p. 275). In 

 August Mr. South took a single specimen of the very scarce 

 Metrioptera roeselii at Leigh, in Essex. 



Acridiodea. — Short-" horned " grasshoppers are usually 

 more in evidence than those with the long antennae, and fresh 

 references to the former have therefore been the more numerous 

 during the past year. Mr. S. E. Brock records Gomphocerus 

 maculatus from Linlithgowshire, at Craigton (plentifully), at 

 Priestwich, and at Linlithgow ; and notes that it was already 

 stridulating on June 25th. Personally, I did not notice it 

 m,ature till July 10th, when it was found just outside the ' Hand 

 and Spear ' at Weybridge, on the evening of the Entomological 

 Club Supper at that well-laiown hotel. Mr. W. Evans took the 

 female* at Aberdour, in Fife, on August 15th. Colonel J. W. 

 Yerbury sent me eighteen specimens from Nethy Bridge — a 

 male and female taken on August 9th ; iBve males and seven 

 females on August 11th ; and two males and two females on the 

 18th. I received a female from Mr. K. J. Morton, taken at 

 Llanfaethlu, in Anglesey, August lst-7th, 1911. Kev. F. C. R. 

 Jourdain took a female in the- late summer, at Dovedale, in 

 Derbyshire. Omocestiis viridulus is reported by Mr. Brock from 

 Drumshoreland, in Linlithgowslure, and from Craigton in the 

 same county plentifully. Mr. Evans took both male and female 

 at Aberdour, in Fife, on August 15th. Colonel Yerbury sent 

 me, from Nethy Bridge, a male taken July 30th ; a male, 

 August 9th ; a male and four females, August 11th. Mr. 

 Jourdain took a female in Dovedale. Of Stauroderus bicolor 

 Mr. Evans took the female, at Port Seton, in Haddingtonshire, 

 on August 11th, and both male and female at Waughton, in the 

 same county, on October 14th (his latest date for the species). 

 Colonel Yerbury gave me three specimens, two males and a 

 female, of a dull reddish brown tint, taken October 13th, in 

 Cornwall, at Downderry, which is on the shore of Whitesand 

 Bay, between Plymouth and Looe. Mr. Morton sent me a male 

 taken at Llanfaethlu, in Anglesey, August lst-7th. A male was 

 taken in late summer by Mr. Jourdain at Dovedale. Mr. Brock 

 says that Cjiorthipphus parallelus was in considerable numbers at 

 Drumshoreland, in Linlithgow, being in full "song" on July 

 10th. Colonel Yerbury sent four nymphs, taken at Lochinver 

 on July 1st, 4th, 12th, and 22nd, all of which must no doubt be 

 referred to this species. Mecostethus grossus seemed to be 

 mature in the New Forest somewhat earlier than usual, as, of 

 course, was to be expected. Several females of Tetrix hipunc- 

 tatus were secured in West Perthshire, at Lochard, by Mr. 



* In this and similar cases, unless it is expressly so stated, it must not 

 be supposed that only the individuals mentioned were in evidence, or that 

 the sex not mentioned veas absent from the spot at the time. 



