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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Abersock in Carnarvonshire in September (T. V. Campbell). 

 Besides the above new records, the outstanding event in connec- 

 tion with the Locustodea is the capture of a macropterous 

 female of Metrioptera brachyptera, Linn. This was taken by 

 G. Fox-Wilson at 9.30 a.m. on 3 August resting on a vine rod 

 about 2 \ feet above the ground in the Early Vinery at the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society's Gardens at Wisley in Surrey. The side 

 and top ventilators were half open, which means that a wide 

 enough space was left to admit a bird as large as a plover. The 

 insect was resting on the rod quite near the side ventilator at 

 the north end of the house on 

 the east side. The Vinery is 

 composed of three houses- 

 Early, Medium and Late — 

 joined into one house, and is 

 about the middle house of a 

 group of 8 glass-houses. On 

 the north end of the house a 

 shrub-border runs, with her- 

 baceous borders, etc., beyond 

 it. On the south there is a 

 lawn used for hay, with the 

 vegetable garden behind it. 

 Wisley Common is 200 yards 

 away on the east side. Con- 

 sequently it is quite reasonable 

 to suppose that the insect was 

 bred on the Common and flew 

 in at the ventilator. It is at 

 present a unique British ex- 

 ample of this form of M. 

 brachyptera, but not absolutely 

 the only specimen known. 

 The figure is multiplied by 

 1£, and, though the hind- 

 wing is somewhat folded, the venation appears to be as 

 marked. 



Acridiodea.— G. T. Lyle captured at Wicken^en, quite at the 

 beginning of April, a very dark male imago of Tetrix subulatus, 

 Linn., which he sent to me. Later he was able to send a 

 female (captured there on 1 May) with somewhat pale pronotum, 

 edged with paler yellowish-brown. On 6 June at one of the 

 haunts of this insect in the New Forest I took only one male and 

 two females, although it was a bright day. No doubt most of the 

 hibernated examples had died after the next generation had been 

 provided for. On 30 May I captured in the New Forest a large 

 dark speckled female imago of its congener Tetrix bipunctatus, 

 Linn. On 13 June in the New Forest the first imago of Gompho- 



[W. J. L., photo. 

 Metrioptera brachyptera, Linn, (x 1J). 

 (Macropterous female.) 

 The hind wing is somewhat folded, but 



venation appears to be as indicated. 



Sc = subcosta. i?=radius. M= medius. 



C« = cubitus. 1.4= first anal. 



