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5 . Lowestoft district, August 21st, 1898, (? . This is a common 

 species, occurnng in open grassy places throughout the country. 

 Steiuibothrns nijipc-'i, Zett. There is a pair of this species, unfortunately 

 Avithout localities attached ; it is less common and widely distributed 

 than its near ally, the above. StenubuthrnA bicolor, Charp. This is 

 perhaps our most abundant grasshopper. Mr. Morley sends a number 

 of examples from the Ipswich district, from Felixstowe, October 31st, 

 1899, and Foxhall Heath, September, 1899, numerous examples, 

 including the green form mollis, Latr., and the red form purpiiya>ice)is, 

 Charp. There is a very immature specimem from Felixstowe links, 

 taken as early as June 1th, 1895, and from Icklingham Plains, June 

 12th, 1899. Striiobuthnis dedans, Charp. One female from the 

 Lowestoft district, August 9th, 1898. This is a very local species, 

 found in but a few districts, though where it does occur it is usually 

 extremely abundant. Sti'tiobothi-us parallelm, Zett. Ipswich, Sep- 

 tember iObh, 1897, and Bramford, July 31st, 1896. One of our 

 commonest species, (xumphocenis niacnlatas, Thunb. Ipswich district, 

 Foxhall Heath, August 15th, 1897 ; Lowestoft district, July 12th, 

 1895. Tcttir snbulatu>i, L. Ipswich district, June 12th, 1900. 

 TItanniotrizoii cinereiis, L. This is the only Locustid in the collection. 

 It is extremely immature, and chiefly interesting on account of the 

 early date of its capture. No locality is attached, but the date is May 

 10th, 1900. At this period the majority of our Orthoptera are being 

 just hatched out, though but few appear before the later half of the 

 month. May 10th is the earliest record in my knowledge of the 

 capture of this species. — M. Burr. 



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Eg^gs of Clythra quadripunctata. — [1 received from lsh\ Tutt 

 nine or ten eggs, with a request for a "good description " of them, 

 and with them a note from Mr. Donisthorpe to Mr. Tutt, asking him 

 to do what he could with them. I have no further information about 

 them except that they are Clythra.] Half a dozen of the eggs are 

 naked, long ovoid, apparently circular in cross section. The length is 

 12mm., the greatest width •56mm. The colour is a yellowish-white, 

 somewhat opalescent, with clearer and more transparent contents 

 towards the ends in some specimens. Two specimens possess a curious 

 coating or capsule, and one other has a shred of similar material 

 attached. When magnified so as to look an inch or two long, one 

 cannot resist the idea that here is a larval case, or cocoon, clothed 

 with the brown glumes or bracts that fall from the leaf-buds of trees 

 when they open in spring. A full third of the egg protrudes from 

 the case, the margin where the egg protrudes lies closer to the egg than 

 do the projecting bract-like bodies forming the rest of the case, and 

 looks as if it consisted of six or seven such bodies applied rather closer 

 to the egg, or as though the top of the egg had been covered by a con- 

 tinuous membrane, and had escaped, so far as it had, by this slitting 

 open into six or seven flaps. The '• bracts " are thin and membranous, 

 projecting in various directions, rather away from the open end 

 of tlie case, but unlike bracts are not all to regular pattern, 

 and are like irregular torn pieces of membrane of various sizes and 

 shapes. Their total projection is •12mm. from the surface of the egg. 



