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it ate grass voraciously. — D. E. Brown, 
Queen Street, Huddersfield ; Sept. 2. 
Locusts in Sussex. — Three locusts were 
brought to me to-day. — J. J. Reeve, 
Newhaven , Sussex ; September 7. 
Gryllus migratorius. — A line specimen 
of this hitherto rare British insect was 
found, on the 2nd of September, by a 
woman, near Walton Heath, and is now 
in my possession. — D. Watney, Box 
Hill, Dorking ; September 9. 
Gryllus migratorius. — A specimen of 
this insect (the European locust) was 
taken by my sister in her garden, on 
Sunday, the 23rd of August last: it is 
still alive, and measures about two inches 
and a half in length and nearly live inches 
in expanse of wing. I believe several 
other locusts have been taken in York- 
shire during the present summer. — Ed- 
ward Morton, Ripon ; Sept. 10. 
Locust in Yorkshire . — I have just seen 
a line specimen of Gryllus migratorius, 
taken in a garden near this city. The 
lady who found it keeps it in a glass 
case, feeding on the leaves of red beech, 
on which it appears to thrive. — J. Hasle- 
dine Tutin, Surgeon, Ripon; Sept. 10. 
Coleoptera. 
A Black Beetle and the Cockroach. — In 
three houses at Chelsea, where the some- 
what local Sphodrus leucopthalmus has its 
abode, cockroaches occur, but “ few and 
far between” are their appearances. In 
another house Blatta orientalis may be 
very freely collected indeed, but the oc- 
cupier (although an entomologist) cannot 
find a Sphodrus. Now may not this real 
“ black beetle” prove a very “ old bogie” 
to the juvenile larva of the Orthopterous 
usurper of its popular name, and be a 
check on their increase? Of the larva of 
Sphodrus I cannot speak, but that the 
elegantly shaped beetle itself is carni- 
vorous any one may perceive by placing 
one under a tumbler with a shred of 
meat. Acting under this view, I try to 
teach the inmates to look before they 
smash, — nothing but the fact of a 
Coleopterist being very much in want 
of the insect tempting me to destroy it. 
Perhaps some of your readers may be 
induced to publish their experience in 
“black beetle” life, and throw some light 
on a rather dark subject. — W. Ryland, 
27, Manor Street, Chelsea; Sept. 7. 
Zabrus piger . — In the ‘Intelligencer’ 
of last year I recorded the capture of 
this insect at Box Hill, and I have now 
the pleasure of informing you that, 
while walking in the town of Ashford 
on Saturday last, I captured a fine and 
perfect specimen. Surely were this in- 
sect more sought after it would be fre- 
quently captured, for the two I have 
taken were found accidentally, while 
walking on the high road, and musing 
on other, but not more pleasing, subjects 
than Natural History. — D. Watney, 
Box Hill, Dorking.; September 9. 
Clytus arcualus . — I have duplicates 
(set) of the above to spare, where re- 
quired. I am in want of Leptura quad- 
rifasciata, Pachyta octomaculata, or any 
Saperda, excepting the common one 
( populnea ), or any local Coleoptera. — 
M. H. Knapp, 21, Lampeter Street, 
Islington, N. ; September 12. 
COLEOPTERA. 
The season is now on the wane, and in a 
very few weeks will have entirely passed 
away, at least for ordinary collectors, 
who do not adopt those more vigorous 
modes of research which would disen- 
tomb the Coleoptera from their very 
winter retreats, and would so (however 
unnaturally) convert “hoary Christmas” 
itself into a harvest-time. We repeat, 
therefore, that for mortals of common 
mould (and such alone we are addressing) 
our campaign may be said to be drawing 
rapidly to a close. Nevertheless, let us 
not jump to the conclusion that it is 
