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NOTE ON A FEW OUTHOPTEEA FKOM JAPAN AND KOREA. 

 BT MALCOLM BUKR, F.Z.S. 



I am indebted to Mr. T. S. Fletcher, of H.M.S. " Centurion," for 

 a small, but very interesting collection of Ortlioptera from Japan and 

 Korea. The chief interest lies in the notes which Mr. Fletcher has 

 most carefully written on the papers in which the insects were 

 packed. If all collectors abroad followed this excellent example, we 

 should know more about the actual Natural History of the insects, 

 and not have to be contented with mere descriptions of Museum 

 specimens. 



Anisolabis maeitima (Bon.). — One male, two females, two immature, Kobe, 

 June 11th, 1897. " One running along the ground ; the other under a stone. The 

 only specimens I saw here." Nagasaki, June 26tli, 1897. " Found under refuse, &c., 

 on the beach (shingle and sand) of an island just outside Nagasaki." Mr. Fletcher 

 also observed that the male seemed to have a " number of lice (?) adherent to its 

 under surface." 



Tenodeea AEiDiFOiiA (Serv.). — One male and one female. Nagasaki, October 

 14th, 1897, and October 17th, 1897. 



PsEUDOMANTis Haanii (Sauss.).— Nagasaki, October 14th, 1897. 



Stenobothetts bicoloe (Charp.). — Port Lazareff, Korea, October 2nd, 1897. 

 Mororan, Yezo, September 13th, 1897. Two females. 



(Edaietis inieenalis (Sauss.). — Port Lazareff, Korea, a place about twelve 

 miles from Gensan, October 2nd, 1897. 



AcEiDiTJM JAPONICUM (Burm.). — Port Hamilton, a group of small islands some 

 thirty miles south of Korea, October 10th, 1897. Kobe, June 11th, 1897. Naga- 

 saki, October 17th, 1897, where, he adds, it is common. Two males, one female. 



Caloptenus italicus (L.). — One male. Port Lazareff, Korea, October 2nd, 

 1897. 



DuCETiA JAPONICA (Thunb.). — Port Lazareff, Korea, October 2nd, 1897. 



CoNOCEPHALTJS BEEViPENNis (Eedt.). — Hakodate, August 16th, 1897. 

 " Amongst grass, near the town. Grasshoppers are rather scarce near the town, as 

 the Japanese boys catch them and put them into little paper cages ; what they do 

 with them afterwards I do not know." This species has hitherto been recorded 

 from North-East India. 



Geylltjs miteattts (Burm). — One male, one female. October 10th, 1897. 

 Of this species Mr. Fletcher writes : " This is a very common species at Port 

 Hamilton, where it occurs in dry fields. It is also common at Nagasaki, where I 

 have found it under heaps of decaying vegetable matter. 



CEcANTHiTS, sp. — One male, too crushed for accurate identification. It very 

 closely resembles 0. pellucens, Scop., which, however, does not seem to occur further 

 east than Asia Minor. Mororan (70 or 80 miles from Hakodate), Yezo, September 

 10th, 1897. " This specimen was found sitting inside a shrivelled-up loaf. There 

 was a hole in the leaf, and in this hole it was sitting, and making a tremendously 



