GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS AND COCKROACHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By David R. Ragge. With 22 colour plates from drawings by the late H.D. Swain and 130 text figures by the author. Wayside and Woodland Series.

1965 1st edition. 8vo (153 x 221mm). Ppxii,299. Colour plates, b/w illustrations, maps, bibliography. Maroon cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

Contents include:- Stick-insects; Cockroaches; Crickets, grasshoppers and ground-hoppers; Wingless camel-crickets; Bush-crickets; Crickets; Mole-crickets; Grasshoppers; Ground-hoppers; Casual introductions and migrants; The quest for orthoptera. Appendixes include:- Latin names: a word of explanation; The county subdivisions of the Watson-Praeger Vice-County system; A check-list of the orthoptera of the British Isles.