1921.] 113 



Distant lias described an Indian genus, Mescliia, wliich he placed in 

 the Heterogastrinae, but probably will prove to belong to the Geocorinae. 

 It has the head and pronotuiu not unlike those of Sympejjlus, and, 

 judging from the figures, there is a tubercle behind the clypeus as in 

 Psanimium, though much less developed. He says nothing of the tarsi, 

 and figures those of j\I. pugnax as three-jointed, whereas the figure of 

 jSI. quadnmaculata represents them as two-jointed.* He included the 

 genus in the Heferognstrinae on account of the membrane having a cell 

 near the inner basal angle, but the Heterogastrinae have generally either 

 two such cells or the longitudinal veins emitted from a transverse sub- 

 basal vein. Distant has placed among the Heterogastrinae several 

 genera which really belong to other subfamilies. For instance, Esmun 

 Dist. and Euhemerus Dist. (both synonyms of JBlissus Burm.) were 

 referred by him to the Heterogastrinae on account of the above-mentioned 

 cell ; had he looked at King's figure of the type of Blissus, he would 

 have seen that the venation of the membrane is quite the same. A cell 

 near the inner basal angle of the membrane is not a character peculiar 

 to the Heterogastrinae, but occurs in several genera and species of other 

 subfamilies, as in some Geocorinae, Ulissinae, etc., and is not of great 

 systematic importance. Whether Meschia belongs to the Heterogastrinae 

 or to the Geocorinae can be decided only by an examination of the 

 spiracles, the position of which is quite different in these subfamilies. 



Jamsfi, Finland. 



February 23rd, 1921. 



Colcoptera of the Oxford District, Fifth Supplement, by J. J. Walker. — The 

 Fifth Supplement to the preliaiinary li3t of the Coleoptera of this district, 

 comprising a radius of 7 miles from tlie centre of the city at Carfax, lias 

 recently been published in the Report of the Aslimolean Natural History 

 Society of Oxfordshire for 1920. This adds 130 species to those previously 

 recorded by the same auth or, bringing the total number (allowance being made 

 for sundry withdrawals) to 2070, very many of which are due to his unceasing 

 activity in the field. Advantage is taken in the present Supplement to include 

 several interesting species found during past years at Weston-on-the-Green, 

 a locality just beyond the conventional radius, the Rev. A. Matthews having 

 recorded various Trichopteryyidae, etc., from this place. Of the Stylopidue, 

 no fewer than eight species are enumerated, mainly due to the energy of 

 Mr. A. H. Hamni. — G. C. Champion, Horsell: April IWi, 1921. 



Note on Ciomis lonyicollis Bris. var. mo7itanus Wingelm, — In the current 

 number of the " Fntomologist's Record" Mr. Donistborpe gives an account 

 of the distribution of our British Cioni, with a simple table of the species 



* Mr. Chamxiion informs mo that the}- are three-jointed in both species. 



