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cerus maculatus, Linn., was secured— a female with pale mid-dorsal 

 line to head and thorax, and pale dorsal part of closed wings. 

 In August Bracken took this species at Newquay in Cornwall. 

 Mecostethus grossus, Linn., was found mature in the New Forest 

 on 21 July. Others were taken there in various localities after- 

 wards. A nymph captured on 31 July produced a female 

 imago on 6 August. Of Omocestus rufipes, Zett., the last noted 

 was a male on 12 September iu the New Forest, but no particular 

 search was made for the species. Omocestus viridulus, Linn., was 

 taken mature as early as 30 May, in the New Forest. On 1 July 

 imagines were met with at Elstree Eeservoir and at Stanmore 

 Common in Middlesex. A fine female was taken at Hillend Hill, 

 Pentlands, Midlothian, on 23 July (Evans). On 2 July the 

 common grasshopper, Stauroderus bicolor, Charp., was found 

 mature on high dry ground near Chessington in Surrey : there 

 were numbers of nymphs, but few imagines. Later, on 27 August, 

 at the same place, though there were darker specimens, most 

 examples were light in colour, often with pale yellowish longi- 

 tudinal stripes, thus assimilating very markedly with the scorched 

 grass : occasionally they had a reddish or greenish tint in parts. 

 Dr. B. P. Campbell sent me 19 males and 20 females which he 

 took on 17 July at St. Cyrus near Montrose. The females varied 

 as usual in colour, the males were much more uniform in tint. 

 A male was captured at Abersock in Carnarvonshire on 1 Sept. 

 (T. V. Campbell). One was taken on Esher Common in Surrey 

 on 29 September, when, after the fires and drought, grasshoppers 

 were few in number. On 3 July a male Chorthippus parallelus, 

 Zett., was found mature near Chessington. The species was 

 taken there again, green in colour, on 27 August. 



On the whole the season for grasshoppers appeared to be an 

 early one ; but apparently it ended early also. From 31 Aug.- 

 20 Sept. in the New Forest they were not particularly numerous, 

 nor were their songs very often heard. 



I must not conclude without referring to an addition to the 

 known Orthopterous fauna of the Channel Islands. On 23 Oct. 

 1921 J. E. le B. Tomlin gave me a female earwig, Forficula 

 pubescens, Gene, which he took in Guernsey in September. The 

 females of some species of Forficula are rather alike, but, after 

 detailed examination by K. G. Blair and myself, there was no 

 doubt about its identity. Entomological visitors to Guernsey 

 will perhaps secure other specimens, including males, of this 

 earwig, which has not yet been found in Britain. 



Kingston-on-Thames ; 

 July, 1922. 



