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 INSECTS ORTHOPTERA (Earwigs, Cockroaches, Grasshoppers, and Crickets) Very little recent work appears to have been done in this order. R. Garner, in his Natural History of the County of Stafford (1844), mentions nine species, and the late Edwin Brown, in his l Fauna of Burton-on-Trent' (Natural History of Tut bury, p. 163), gives a list of fourteen species from the Burton district. Anisolabis maritima appears to have been introduced in bundles of returned cask staves into a Burton brewery. Those species marked t have been determined by Mr. W. J. Lucas. R.G. = R. Garner. E.B. = Edwin Brown. F.J. = Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain. FORFICULARIA Anisolabis maritima, Bonelli. Several living speci- mens occurred in a brewery at Burton 'some years ago' (E.B.) [1863] Lnbia minor, L. (R.G.) ; frequent, Burton (E.B.) Forficula auricularia, L. General BLATTODEA BlatU orientalis, L. Periplaneta americana, L. First recorded from Burton by E.B. in 1842 (R.G.) ; now resi- dent there ACRIDIODEA Stenobothrus viriJulus, L. Common Burton dis- trict (E.B.);t common on slopes near Ramshom Woods, Ellastone (F.J.) parallelus, Zett.t Also common near Rams- horn Woods, Ellastone (F.J.) Gomphocerusmaculatus.Thnb. (biguttatus, Charp.). Said to have been taken near Burton (E.B.);t among the screes on Bunster, Dovedale (FJ.) ACRIDIODEA (continued') Pachytylus migratorius, L. ' Has been captured . . . many times in this district' (E.B.) ; one at Burton in 1842 ; another in 1846, also at Stoke-on-Trent in 1857 (R.G.) cinerascens, Fb. One taken near Burton (E.B.) Schistocerca peregrina, Oliv. Visited the south- eastern counties in some numbers in 1869, spreading into Derbyshire, Staffordshire, &c. No later records GRYLLODEA ' Rare, but caught in A'. Requires confirmation] [Gryllus campestris. Staffs: (R.G.) domesticus, L. [Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa, L. ' Taken in gardens about Birmingham' (R.G.). Not confirmed by subsequent observers. One was, how- ever, found in 1898 in a stove-house at Meaford Hall, near Stone, and a second was discovered while unloading a truck of ' oxide ' at Longton on 1 4 September, 1 906, both probably imported accidentally (Zoo/. 1906, p. 437)] NEUROPTERA (Psocids, Stone Flies, Dragon Flies, Lace-wings, etc.) The Neuroptera of Staffordshire have been but little studied. Mr. E. Brown (Natural History of Tutbury, pp. 171-4) mentions ten species of Odonata, but gives very scanty information regarding the rest of the order. Upwards of thirty years ago Mr. Brown's collection was critically examined by Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., and the Rev. A. E. Eaton. As will be seen from the following list, our knowledge of the Perlidae, Ephemeridae, and Hydroptilidae of Staffordshire is practically confined to what has been recorded by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, who paid special attention to those families in the Dove Valley in the neighbourhood of Ashburne. R.G. = R. Garner. E.B. = E. Brown. A.E.E. = A. E. Eaton. McL. = R. McLachlan. G.P. = G. Pullen. R.C.B. = R. C. Bradley. W.H.B. = W. Harcourt Bath. A.D.I. = A. D. Imms. F.J. = Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain. Ent. = Entomologist. 80