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THE ORTHOPTERA OF S U F F O L K .
T H E ORTHOPTERA OF SUFFOLK. SUCH large and handsome insects as the Locusts, Grasshoppers, Crickets, and to a less extent the Cockroaches and Earwigs, are consequently conspicuous objects wherever they occur. Everybody knows them by sight; yet, strangely enough, no comprehensive account of our comital ones has ever been printed beyond that of the 1911 Victoria History. Since then the nomenclature has been amended, more local kinds have been noted, and two species deleted from the British List, which now stands at but thirty-eight (Lucas' Monograph of Brit. Orthoptera, Ray Soc. 1920 ; revised at Entomologist 1927, p. 276, omitting Staurodems vagans, Ever., of E.MM. 1922, p. 211). All but ten of these have been discovered in Suffolk ; and the remainder are so very locally distributed in England as to be unlikely to occur with us here. Besides the natives or naturalised species, we can incorporate three casual visitants or those imported in foreign produce, which raise the Suffolk Orthoptera to thirty-one different kinds. Especial attention needhere be directed to nothing but the fluctuating Locust plagues of 1842-76 in England. That there was a probability of very serious local destruction in 1857, Dr. Bree's footnote indicates : the colonial report for the State of Swaziland in 1908-9 alots some two hundred pounds to the diminution of this pest (for more cf. Dr. ZEneas Munro's 1899 ' Locust Plague and its Suppression,' of no less then 357 pages !). DĂźring these thirty-four years, Locusts certainly appeared in our county with considerably greater frequency than the following meagre accounts represent: unfortunately amplification appears lost beyond recovery now. Nevertheless, there has been no lack of Suffolk observers among Orthoptera in general during the past Century ; and we may enumerate in roughly chronological sequence : the Revd. William Kirby, F.R.S., and his occasional visitor at Barham, J . F. Stephens, F.L.S. : the Pagets' 1834 ' Natural History of Great Yarmouth ' : the late W. H. Baker of Battisford and in 1908 of The Meadlands, Combs, and his father ; Edward Saunders, F.R.S., of Woking in Surrey, the Revd. E. N. Bloomfield, M.A., F.E.S., of Guestling in Sussex, and W. H. Tuck, M.A., of Tostock ; along with E. A. Elliott, Claude Morley, E. W. Platten, Bernard Harwood, Dr. Vinter, Chester G. Doughty and K. G. Blair, present Members of the Society, by whom the following List is compiled. FORFICULIDAE
(DERMAPTERA).
Labia minor, Linn. The Small Earwig.—Widely distributed but rarely common ; nearly always captured while Aying. Yarmouth, occasionally (Paget). Corton, North Cove,