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detailed treatment than would be possible in the present paper. Let 
me only notice that marvellously beautiful Mantis, Hymenopus bicornis, 
a pupa of which lived for some days in my charge. In form and 
colour it was so perfectly assimilate] ta flower, that I was como'stely 
deceived as to its real nature when I saw it first, and, even when I 
held the inflorescence on which it had taken up its station in my hand, 
I could not be certain exactly where the insect ended and the flowers 
began. The very flies are deceived by the likeness, and small Diptera 
do not hesitate to settle on the body of the mantis, which takes no 
trouble to catch such insignificant prey, but waits until larger flies 
come within its grasp. 
On the British Orthoptera in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 
By MALCOLM BURR, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
In the Hope collection, in the University Museum, at Oxford, there 
are a number of old specimens of considerable interest, as many are 
labelled in the handwriting of the late Professor Westwood, and some 
in the handwriting of Stephens. Professor Poulton has been kind 
enough to permit me to examine and rearrange them. The following 
notes on some of the older specimens may be of interest. 
Forricunarta.—Labidura riparia, Pall—One g, two @. ‘ Ene- 
land.’ No further information on the labels. They are very probably 
some of the original specimens taken near Christchurch. Antsolabis 
maritima, Bon.—‘ Northumberland. G. Wailes. 1857, end of Sep- 
tember.’ These are evidently not some of the original examples taken 
by Bold at South Shields, but those captured a few years later by 
George Wailes, when he took a number of specimens for his careful 
observations of the development of the antenne and abdominal 
segments, recorded by him in the Zoologist, vol. xvi., p. 5895, ina 
paper that has to a large extent been overlooked, in spite of its great 
interest. The insect was taken in heaps of ballast emptied by ships 
returnine from abroad, and it is practically certain that it was an 
importation. It was first captured in 1856, and was still to be found 
in 1860. It is unknown whether the species still exists there. Labia 
minor, Li.—Six g,ten 2. ‘ Snowdon.” Forficula auricularia, L.— 
Numerous examples. ‘Two are labelled ‘borealis’? in what I believe 
to be Stephens’ handwriting; these are what I have always regarded 
as the variety forcipata. The difference between the two is merely a 
matter of the comparative length of the forceps. F’. lesneit, Fin.—One 
@. ‘Kingstone,’ an old specimen. Apteryyida albipennis, Meg.— 
One pair, old, and in bad condition. ‘There is no locality attached, 
but the specimens are probably some of the originals taken at Ashford 
by Westwood. In his handwriting they are labelled ‘“ F’. centralis, 
Westw., MS.” 
Buatropea.—Fictobia lapponica, L.i—Ten g. “ Sunning Hill, 
Berks.” #. livida, Fabr.—‘‘ Rudd. N. F.” This species has been 
previously recorded from the New Forest. H. panzeri, Steph.—Several 
examples. Two males labelled ‘J. C. Dale, 1865.”’ One specimen, a 
male, is labelled ‘‘ Blatta nigripes, Mus. Steph., in Notes on habits, 
B. G. C.,” but it is too pale in colour to be the true form niyripes, and 
does not agree with Stephens’ own description. It is the ordinary 
typical form. There are several specimens considerably darker in 
