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The Natuealist. 



Brown Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct., 1842, x. 157). Two locusts 

 were taken on the 9th September, 1842, by a labourer at Holmpton 

 (a village in the East Riding, situated quite on the sea), in a field of 

 oats. These specimens were kept alive by Mr. Wm. Sherwood until 

 the 18th and 26th of the same month. Three other specimens were 

 taken in the same vicinity, one at Hollymor, a village about two- 

 miles from the sea, and two at Roos, about a mile from the coasts 

 Two were caught at Scarborough during the week preceding the 8th 

 of September, one of which was preserved by Mr. Williamson for the 

 Scarborough Museum (all these examples recorded by Wm. Sherwood, 

 of Patrington ; Zool, 1844, ii. 477 & 478). No doubt the Scar- 

 borough examples are the same as those reported by Mr. Denny. Other 

 specimens occurred near Derby (recorded as male Locusta Christii) ; 

 Stafford ; Chesterfield ; and Burton-on-Trent. We thus see the 

 remarkable preponderance of specimens in and about the district of 

 Holderness, all the other records being of single examples only. 

 Such of the specimens as were named were referred to Curtis' s Locusta 

 Christii, a species which is usually considered by authors to be syno- 

 nymous with Facliytylu8 cinerascens. Mr. MacLachlan, however, tells 

 me that he has referred to Curtis's figure, and that it is certainly not 

 oinerascens, but appears to be migratorius, and adds that perhaps 

 Curtis's idea of the latter was cinerascens. The type specimen upon 

 which L. Christii was founded went with the rest of Curtis's- 

 collections to Australia, and therefore cannot now be readily appealed 

 to for the settlement of this question. 



1846; 



The most numerous, though perhaps not the most widely distributed 

 visitation of locusts of which I have read, occurred in the year 1846- 



On the 26th August one was taken in a barley-field about eight 

 miles from K'naresborough (J. C. Garth ; Zool., 1846, iv. 1518). 

 Twelve occurred during September, in and about the city of York, 

 one of them near Shipton, about five miles north, and another in the 

 Cattle Market close by the city walls, on the 14th September 

 (R. Cook j^oo^., 1846, iv. 1519). One was taken on Flamborougb 

 Head in the beginning of August, and two at Bridlington about the 

 28th (T.. Vernon Wollaston ; Zool., 1846, iv. 1519. Seven specimens 

 occurred near Redcar during September CT. S. Rudd ; Zool., 1846, 

 iv. 1520j. One at Sigglesthorne on the 9th September, and several 

 others about the same time. The Hull Packet of Sept. 26th reported 

 tihat the whole coast between the Humber and the Tweed had been 



