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colour, approaching more nearly to the true nigripes. One dark speci- 
men is labelled ‘‘ Rev. W. Kirby, lapponica.” There is one ? with 
ootheca labelled ‘‘ Black Gang Chine.”’ Phyllodromia germanica, 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.’ Reports 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 orientalis, Li.—Several specimens unlabelled ; one @ 
nymph “ under bark of tree, 10ft. up, K. G.”  (2=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 flea, and 
exhibited by J. O. W. at Ent. Soc. as Pulex imperator.” This is the 
original type of Westwood’s famous mistake. He exhibited this 
specimen at the Entomological Society (Proc. Ent. Soc., 2nd series, 
iy., 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 (op. cit., v., p. 60). There is also a broken ootheca with 
the label ‘‘ Kee-pouch of B. orientalis? Mr. W. Baird in acct. 
amongst ent. scraps. For the parasitic Chalcididae bred see them 
among Chaleididae.”” Ihave carefully searched through the drawers 
of the British Chalcididae and have been through Walker’s Monographia 
Chalciditum but cannot find the specimens referred to. 
Acrip1opEA.—Mecostethus grossus, L.—Five g and three 2. With- 
out locality, labelled ‘‘ Locusta jlavipes.” Stenobothrus lineatus, S. 
viridulus, S. rufipes.—Several specimens with no interesting labels. 8. 
bicolor, Charp.—Many specimens without labels. One ¢ labelled 
‘“‘crucigera,’ and another g ‘Isle of Purbeck, 1880. L. rubicunda.”’ 
This is apparently the pink form known as purpurascens, Fieb. The 
name rubicunda has usually been referred to S. viridulus, of which a 
reddish form is sometimes taken. S&S. parallelus, Zett.—Several 
nymphs, and one empty nymph-skin, ‘ Blenheim Park, 1832.” 
Gomphocerus stbiricus, L.—One g unlabelled, which is most probably 
Stephens’ type, said to have been taken at Netley. G. rufus, L.—One 
$ unlabelled. G. maculatus, Thunb.—One g “ Devil’s Ditch, 
Newmarket Heath, July 2nd, 1883. J.C. Dale.” Pachytylus migra- 
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. O. W.” 
One ¢ ‘‘ alive near Oxford, J. O. W.” and a second ¢@ ‘Ct. alive near 
Chepstow, September 16th, 1857.” [There are no specimens of P. 
danicus, L.]. Schistocerca peregrina, Oliy.—T wo specimens, one labelled 
