21G THE entomologist's recokd. 



sought for. (h'lUpoda cacriilcsci'ns, L. — Not uncommon in Guernsey 

 (Lulf) ; also from Jersey (Luff) ; I have received several specimens 

 from the latter island (Cartwright), including some examples of a 

 variety with a red pronotum, which I do not know from any other 

 locality. ScJiistoccrra pcrciirina, Oliv. — One straggler in Guernsey in 1881 

 (Luff) ; it is carious that this African species should have heen taken 

 so far north in 1881, when none were recorded ui Great Britain. 

 Tctt'iA' siihnlatiis, L. — -Common in Guernsey (Lufi') ; it is strange that 

 the commoner Tettix hipKHctatits is not yet noticed from the Channel 

 Islands. 



Locusta rin'ilissinia, L., and I'lati/clcis (/rism, Fabr. — Both common 

 in Guernsey (Luff) ; I have received the latter from .Jersey (Cartwriglit). 



(Trj/Uiis (Joiiii'stinis, L., in houses in Guernsey (Luff'). It is quite 

 probable that (i. (■<(iiijii-stris, L., may be taken in sandy places in 

 Jersey. (rnjUdtdlpa (jrijlldtaljia, L., occurs in Guernsey (Luff'). 



From the above notes it will be seen that, apart from Jersey, the 

 orthopterous fauna of the Channel Islands resembles that of Great 

 Britain, but is poorer, though O. caendescem, which is essentially a 

 continental form, occurs. The three specimens recorded from England 

 were very possibly imported from Jersey. It is interesting to find two 

 continental species of Stcn(}biitlini^ Avhich are unknown in England, 

 and this should excite further careful collecting. 



X^OTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^, &c. 



Eggs ok Lepidoptera. — The following notes "were made (when 

 holiday-keeping) under a two-thirds, used as a hand, lens, and must be 

 taken for what they are worth : — 



Krehia lii/ni. — Of a pale straw-yellow or pearly-yellowish colour, 

 with a suspicion of greenish in its tint. Viewed laterally it is inclined 

 to an oval outline, broader at the base than at the micropylar area. 

 There are 17 sharp-edged longitudinal ribs running from base to 

 shoulder, afterwards uniting somewhat irregularly in pairs between 

 the shoulder, and micropylar area around which they ultimately form a 

 rather inconspicuous rim, the micropyle itself forms a small central 

 Stella at the apex. The eggs described were laid by a female captured 

 at Pre St. Didier, on August 7th, 1898. [N.B.— After making the 

 last description {ante, p. 220) I compared, as well as I Avas able, the 

 eggs of K. liiiea from Pre St. Didier, with those of A', ennjah' from 

 above La Thuile. In colour, shape, number of ribs, character of 

 ribs, and structure of micropyle, the eggs of both insects appear to be 

 identical.] 



Krebia tipulants. — One egg attached to a box by a female captured 

 in the Val Ferrex, on August 13th, 1898. The outline roughly oval, 

 wider at base than at apex, the latter flattened somewhat more than 

 the former, pale greenish in colour, the raised vertical ribs, of which 

 there appear to be about 16, whitish ; the micropylar area forms a 

 brighter green basin, the central point of the micropyle proper being 

 white, from Avhich branch a series of white radii. [The basal peduncle 

 noticed in the description of an egg of this species {ante, vol. x., p. 188) 

 was not present, so that this appendage was evidently an aberrant 

 structure. The number of ribs now given as 16, were there given as 

 19 (?20), so probably there is some variation in this respect. The 



