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By the Rev. Francis C. R. Tourdain, M.A. 



HIS order of insects, which includes the earwigs, 

 cockroaches, grasshoppers, etc., has had very little 

 attention paid to it hitherto. The science of 

 Entomology is, however, much more systematically 

 studied now than formerly, and there is little doubt that the 

 publication of Mr. W. J. Lucas's forthcoming work on this order 

 will stimulate interest in it among English entomologists. 

 Hitherto the only work available on the subject has been 

 Mr. Malcolm Burr's useful manual, but it is to be hoped that 

 the last seven years will have added materially to our knowledge 

 of the distribution of many species. As some of these insects 

 are not indigenous to our county, though in several cases firmly 

 established, it is desirable that their status should be accurately 

 known, especially in the case of those which are known to be 

 noxious or destructive. The only local list of any importance 

 is that published in 1863 by Mr. Edwin Brown, who recorded 

 fourteen species from the neighbourhood of Burton-on-Trent, 

 of which perhaps the most remarkable is Anisolabis maritima, 

 usually regarded as an exclusively marine species. Mr. W. J. 

 Lucas has kindly determined the species of Acridiodea which 

 are marked with an asterisk (*). 



Abbreviations used : — 



E.B. — Edwin Brown, " Fauna of Burton-on-Trent " in 

 Sir O. Mosley's Natural History of Tutbury, etc. 

 (1863). 

 G.P. — G. Pullen. (Little Eaton and Derby.) 



