INSECTS' 



With the exception of York and Lincoln, Devon is the largest county 

 in England, containing about 1,660,000 acres. Although the greater part of 

 the county is arable or pasture land, it contains over 86,000 acres of woods 

 and plantations in addition to more than i 57,000 acres of forest, moorland, 

 and wild pasture. From its extensive coast-line, both on the north and 

 south of the county, its varied geological formations and its numerous moors, 

 woods, and plantations, its insect fauna is a rich one, though probably not 

 equal to that of such counties as Kent, Sussex, or Hampshire. 



Through the exigencies of space it has been found necessary to adopt 

 the following symbols in the lists throughout this article ; viz. : — * denotes 

 common; **very common or abundant; §not common; -frare or scarce; 

 :]:very rare, and the abbreviation ' gen. dist.' is used for generally 

 distributed. 



ORTHOPTERA* 



Earwigs, Cockroaches, Grasshoppers, and Crickets 



With the exception of Kent and possibly Hampshire, no county has a better list of species of 

 this order than Devon. The county possesses an earwig not known elsewhere — Anisolabis annulipes, 

 Lucas — first brought to notice by Mr. Swale, who discovered it in an old bakehouse at Tavistock 

 in 1894 ; on inquiry he found it had been established there for a considerable period. Since then 

 it has been discovered at Queenborough, Kent, and several specimens have been imported into Kew 

 Gardens from abroad. 



FORFICULARIA 



Earwigs 



Anisolabis annulipes, Lucas. Taken at Tavistock, observed at Lynmouth, N. Devon (C. A. 



first noticed by Mr. Svirale in 1894 Briggs) 



Labia minor, Linn. Abundant in summer, flying •*Forficula auricularia, Linn. 



round heaps of manure, in S. Devon; also — lesnei, Finot. Sidmouth (C. W. Dale) 



BLATTODEA 



Cockroaches 



EcTOBiDAE EcTOBiDAE {continued) 



Ectobia lapponica, Linn. A specimen taken in the Phyllodromia germanica, Linn. Observed in many 



vaults of the City Bank, £*#/ifr (Parfitt) houses in P/ywoa/^ (Bignell and Keys). It 



— panzeri, Steph. Cliffs, Wembury (Bignell) ; is interesting to note that forty young 



Whitsand Bay (Keys); Dawlish Warren emerged in September, 1895, from one egg 



(W. J. Lucas) ; Kingsbridge and Plymouth capsule of a specimen of this species, the 



l\ F. Stephens) female was obtained from a Plymouth restau- 



— livida, Fabr. Devonshire (Stephens) rant by Mr. James Keys. The capsule of 



' The sequence of the orders here followed is that adopted by Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., in the Cambridge 

 Natural History, 1889-92. — H. G. As the lists of species in this article have been contributed by various 

 writers, it has been difficult to maintain uniformity with regard to the names of authorities, etc., but it is 

 presum'ed that the abbreviations used will be familiar to all entomologists. 



' I have to express my thanks for valuable assistance received to Mr. Ernest E. Austen ; Mr. George 

 Carter Bignell F E.S. ; the late Mr. Charles G. Barrett, F.E.S. ; Mr. Charles A. Briggs, F.E.S. ; Mr. Malcolm 

 Burr B A, F.L.S. ; the Rev. Alfred E. Eaton, M.A., F.E.S. ; the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. ; 

 Mr Wiiliam J. Lucas, BA., F.E.S. ; the late Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., F.L.S. ; the late Rev. Thomas 

 A. Marshall, M.A., F.E.S. ; Mr. George T. Porritt, F.L.S. ; and Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S. 



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