98 THE entomologist's kecord. 



colour, approaching more nearly to the true nif/ripes. One dark speci- 

 men is labelled " Eev. W. Kirby, lapponiea." There is one ? with 

 ootheca labelled "Black Gang Chine." Phyllodromia germamca, L.— 

 This species is usually considered to have been introduced into England 

 by the soldiers returning from the Crimea, but we have distinct 

 evidence here that it was numerous in parts of England before that 

 date. There are several old specimens, one of which is labelled 

 "Infesting the kitchens of houses at Kildare, Ireland, living behind 

 the skirting and abounding in the crevices of the kitchen table, 

 destroying all kinds of paper and in many ways very troublesome, 

 March 1852," and there is another specimen labelled in the same 

 •handwriting, "Mr. Gray Dudley ; taken by him in his garden at the 

 foot of Castle Hill." Eeports of this species taken out of doors are 

 rare. It occurs in a wild state in woods in Prussia and Russia, so 

 there is no reason why it should not become settled wild in this 

 country, as it has become firmly established in a domesticated condi- 

 tion. Blatta orientaUs, L. — Several specimens unlabelled ; one ? 

 nymph " under bark of tree, 10ft. up, K. G." (? = Kew Gardens). It 

 is rarely that this species is taken out of doors, for it seldom leaves the 

 warm kitchens and hot corners that it loves. It would probably be 

 unable to exist in the natural state in this country. There is one 

 crushed and mutilated nymph, mounted on card with the label "Larva 

 of a Blatta, sent by Mr. Backhouse from Gateshead, as a ilea, and 

 exhibited by J. 0. W. at Ent. Soc. as Pnlex imjjerator." This is the 

 original type of Westwood's famous mistake. He exhibited this 

 specimen at the Entomological Society {Pwc. Ent. Soc, 2nd series, 

 iv., p. 70) in 1857, as a new species of flea, twenty times the size of 

 the largest flea hitherto known ! He corrected his mistake in the 

 following year {up. cit., v., p. 60). There is also a broken ootheca with 

 the label " Egg-pouch of B. orientaUs / Mr. W. Baird in acct. 

 amongst ent. scraps. For the parasitic Chalcididae bred see them 

 among Chalcididae." 1 have carefully searched through the drawers 

 of the British Chalcididae and have been through Walker's MonorjrajMa 

 Chalciditum but cannot find the specimens referred to. 



AcRiDioDEA. — Mecostethus f/rossus, L. — Five <y and three ? . With- 

 out locality, labelled " Locusta fiavipes.'" Stenobothrus lineatns, S. 

 virididus, S. rujipes. — Several specimens with no interesting labels. S. 

 hicolor, Charp. — Many specimens without labels. One ^ labelled 

 "c?-;(CT(/t'ra," and another ^ " Isle of Purbeck, 1830. L. rubicimda." 

 This is apparently the pink form known as pmrpmrasce^is, Fieb. The 

 name rubicimda has usually been referred to S. viridndus, of which a 

 reddish form is sometimes taken. S. parcdlelus, Zett. — Several 

 nymphs, and one empty nymph-skin, " Blenheim Park, 1832." 

 Gomphocerus sibiricus, L. — One ^ unlabelled, which is most probably 

 Stephens' type, said to have been taken at Netley. G. rufua, L.- — One 

 (? unlabelled. G. maculatm, Thunb.- — One <y " Devil's Ditch, 

 Newmarket Heath, July 2nd, 1833. J. C. Dale." Pachytylm viigra- 

 torius, L. — There are four specimens of undoubted migratorius, showing 

 that this species has really occurred so far west as this country. One 

 male is unlabelled, another " Littlehampton, Sussex, 1846, J. 0. W." 

 One ? " alive near Oxford, J. 0. W." and a second $ " Ct. alive near 

 Chepstow, September 16th, 1857." [There are no specimens of P. 

 danicits, L.] . Schistocerca pjereyrina , Oliv. — Two specimens, one labelled 



