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than the other kind, it goes about with its jaws widely extended, 
evidently seeking whom it may devour. Its bite is severe, decidedly 
painful at the time though not producing any lasting effect; doubt¬ 
less its more powerful armament permitted it to indulge in more 
leisurely movements. It was common at Mackfield, and a female 
came to light at Montego Bay. A nest was found in a rotten log of 
wood. 
JAMAICAN ORTHOPTERA. 
None of my Neuroptera, and very few of my Orthoptera, have as 
yet been named, but nevertheless the latter are not without interest. 
One day at Walderston when hunting among vegetable debris for 
Land Shells, I saw, as I thought, a dead leaf move, and assume a 
position like a Satyrine butterfly sitting up with closed wings, but it 
proved to be Phyllotettix rhombeum, Felton, an Acridian with a leaf¬ 
like expansion of the pronotum. Mr. Shelford tells me that this 
curious insect was originally described, from a Jamaican specimen, 
in a letter from Samuel Felton, F.B.S., to Henry Baker, dated 
December 2nd, 1763, as Cicada rhombea} 
At Castleton a servant caught in his bedroom a big Acridian 
which bit like a bull-dog, actually drawing blood. When treated 
with chloroform it bit yet harder. 
On February 6th, at Walderston, a Locustid came to light. Its 
head, the upper part of its face and base of the antennae were black; 
the elytra and greater part of the antennae were pale brown; the 
rest of the animal of a light yellow-green. On February 26th, during 
dinner at Port Antonio, one of the black waiters brought me another 
specimen on a salver—my wife said “ like John the Baptist’s head 
in a charger ”—with the question, “ Is this any good, sah ? ” To the 
great amusement of the company I produced a box from my pocket 1 2 3 
and secured it, saying sotto voce to my wife: “I don’t care much 
about these things and I already have one, but it will please the 
waiter.” Three years afterwards I was startled to come across a 
description by Dr. Achille Griffini of Cryllacris longstaffi, sp. nov. B 
This travelled specimen had been sent by Mr. Shelford to Genoa, 
1 Phil. Trans. Boy. Soc., 1765, vol, liv., Tab. vi., p. 55. Also Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 
Ed. xii. 1767. Tom. i. Pars ii. pp. 704, 705, where Linnaeus erroneously attributes 
the insect to—“ Backer, auct. Angl.” 
2 Why is it that the production of a pill-box from a collector’s pocket affords such 
amusement to the looker-on ? It is a strange and as yet unexplained psychological 
fact. 
3 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), iii., p. 866 (1909), 
