COLEOPTERA, Dis 
2. Lowestoft district, August 21st, 1898, ¢. This is a common 
Species, occurring in open grassy places throughout the country. 
Stenobothrus rujipes, Zett. There is a pair of this species, unfortunately 
without localities attached ; it is less common and widely distributed 
than its near ally, the above. Stenobothius 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 purpurascens, 
Charp. There is a very immature specimem from Felixstowe links, 
taken as early as June 4th, 1895, and from Icklingham Plains, June 
12th, 1899.  Stenobuthrus eleyans, 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. Stenobothrus parallelus, Zett. Ipswich, Sep- 
tember 10th, 1897, and Bramford, July 31st, 1896. One of our 
commonest species. Gomphocerus maculatus, Thunb. Ipswich district, 
Foxhall Heath, August 15th, 1897; Lowestoft district, July 12th, 
1895. Tettiv subulatus, L. Ipswich district, June 12th, 1900. 
Thamnotrizon cinereus, Li. 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. all LBxcaay RR. 
CT OLEOPTERA. 
Eee OF CLYTHRA QUADRIPUNCTATA.—/I1 received from Mr. Tutt 
nine or ten eges, with a request for a ‘good description ”’ of them, 
and w “th them a note from My. 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 eges are 
naked, long ovoid, apparently circular in cross section. The length is 
12imim., 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 ege protrudes from 
the case, the margin where the egg protrudes lies closer to the egg than 
do the projecting bract-lke 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 ege 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 im various directions, rather away from the open end 
of the case, but unlike bracts are not all to regular pattern, 
and ave like regular torn pieces of membrane of various sizes and 
shapes. Their total projection is ‘12mm. from the surface of the egg. 
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