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BR.J.ENT.NAT.HIST.,20:2007 137 This survey was commissioned by Hastings Borough Council as part of the Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve Restoration Project to restore cliff-top heathland and grassland, improve biological information and improve public access to this nationally important soft rock cliffcoastline. References Bellmann, H. 1988. A field guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Britain and northern Europe. Collins, London. Burr, M. 1897. British Orthoptera (Earwigs, Grasshoppers and Crickets). The Economic and Educational Museum, Huddersfield. Burr, M. 1936. British Grasshoppers andtheir Allies. Philip Allan & Co., London. Harz, K. 1969. Die Orthopteren Europas. Volumen 1. Junk, The Hague. Kevan, D.K.McE. 1953. Notes on the distribution of British Orthopteroids. Journal ofthe Societyfor British Entomology 4: 119-122. Kleukers, R. 2002. Nieuwe Waarnemingen aan Sprinkhanan en Krekels in Nederland (Orthoptera). NederlandseFaunistische Mededelingen 17: 87-102. Kleukers, R., van Nieukerken, E., Ode, B., Willemse, L. «fe van Wingerden, W. 1997. De SprinkhanenenKrekelsvanNederland. Nederlandse Fauna 1. NationaalNatuurhistorische Museum Nederland. Lucas, W.J. 1920. A monograph ofthe British Orthoptera. Ray Society, London. Marshall, J.A. «fe Haes, E.C.M. 1988. Grasshoppers andalliedinsects ofGreat Britain Ireland. Harley Books, Colchester. Payne, R.M. 1969. A disappointingday at Porthgwarra. Entomologist’s RecordandJournalof Variation 81: 91-92. Ragge, D.R. 1965. Grasshoppers, Crickets and Cockroaches of the British Isles. Frederick Warne, London. Sutton, P. 2006. Wildlife reports-grasshoppers and relatives. British Wildlife 18: 53-54. Voisin, J.-F. 2003. Atlas des Orthopteres (Insecta: Orthoptera) et des Mantides (Insecta: Mantodea) de France. Patrimoines Naturels60: 1-104. SHORT COMMUNICATION Arecordof TetrastichuslegionariusGiraud(Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)fromKent.- On 22.iii.2006 I collected some galls ofLipara lucens Meigen (Diptera: Chloropidae) in stems ofPhragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steudel from the extensive reed beds at Stodmarsh, Kent, (TR2261). The galls were kept in a well-ventilated and shaded garden shed and from one of the galls two male and 11 female Tetrastichus legionarius Giraud emerged on 3.vii,2006. This species is well known as a gregarious parasitoid of L. lucens in Europe but there is only one previous report of T. legionarius in Britain. Six males and 26 females were reared from a gall collected on 12.vi.l996 at Rushey Mead Nature Reserve, Essex (Plant, 1997, Entomologist’s Record&JournalofVariation, 109: 10). Elsewhereinitsrange T. legionariusissaidto be uncommon or rare. A study in the Netherlands showed that from over 10,000 openedgallsonlytwoL. lucenspupariawerefoundto beparasitisedby T. legionarius (Chvala, Doskocil, Mook & Pokorny, 1974, Tijdschrift Voor Entomoolgie, 117: 23). The specimens of T. legionarius have been deposited in the collections of R.R. Askew, whom I thank for their identification. I also thank Natural England for permission to collect at Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve. - M.T. Jennings, 206 Lower Higham Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 2NN

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