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12. On the Gth September one was discovered in a field near tlie 

 cemetery at Scarborongh, " enjoying the beauties of nature," and is in 

 the possession of its captor, Mr. B. Medley, of that town {Scarhorougli 

 Dailj/ Pont, ThmsdsLj, Sept. 7th, 1876). I regret that I was quite 

 unable to persuade Mr. Medley to entrust the insect to me for 

 comparison. 



13. Mr. William Fennell, of Wakefield, is the possessor of a 

 specimen taken in one of the streets of that town during the first 

 week of September, and kept alive by him for ten days. In commu- 

 nicating this information, Mr. Fennell informs me that he has taken 

 them in Spain, between Cordova and Montilla, and that this year 

 (1876) large flights have been carried by south winds from Africa 

 into Andulasia. 



14. A specimen which was taken in a field near the Horticultural 

 Gardens, Hyde Park, Leeds, by a boy named Mitchell, which came 

 into my possession, I have deposited in the Leeds Naturalists' Club's 

 local collection. It is a small specimen, and not in very good 

 condition. 



15 to 22. No less than eight locusts, captured in his neighbour- 

 hood, three of which he had in his own possession, are mentioned by 

 Mr. Philip Lawton, of Easington, near Spurn, in a letter to Mr. 

 N. F. Dobree, which letter Mr. Dobree has communicated to me. I 

 have since corresponded with Mr. Lawton himself, and obtained from 

 him a fine pair, very dissimilar in size, which I have deposited in the 

 Leeds Naturalists' Club's local collection. 



23. The latest in order of date appears to be one which was taken 

 on a lady's dress in Spring-street, Huddersfield, on the 27th Sept., 

 and exhibited by Mr. J. B. Littlewood at the meeting of the 

 Huddersfield Naturalists' Society on the 30th of the same month 

 (Naturalist, Nov., 1876, ii. 60). 



Of these 28 specimens I have seen those numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 

 11, 14, 15, 16, and 23. The 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 23rd examples have 

 also been submitted to Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.L.S., who kindly 

 took the trouble to determine for me the name of the species to which 

 they should be referred, and who also exhibited them on my behalf at 

 the meeting of the Entomological Society of London on the 6th of 

 December. He considers that they are referable to TacJiytylm 

 cinemscens (Fab.), in which opinion Baron de Selys-Longchamps, the 

 distinguished Belgian orthopterist, coincides. 



