NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. i7 
antennal scape, the terminal antennal joint, the anterior tarsi, and 
the apex of clypeus, rufous; mandibles of a paler rufous colour, their 
base tinged with yellow. Wings hyaline, their apex with a narrow 
cloud; the stigma dark fuscous, the nervures black. @. Length, 
5-6 mm. 
Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt, B.A.). 
Face, front, pleurz, and lower half of the sides of metanotum 
broadly covered with white pubescence. Head and thorax closely, 
distinctly punctured, the former more strongly than the latter. 
Metanotal area clearly defined, broadly roundly narrowed behind, 
closely reticulated, its centre black. Legs covered thickly with white 
pubescence; the calcaria white. The first transverse cubital nervure 
is sharply, obliquely sloped from below the middle in front; the 
shorter posterior part is less steeply, obliquely sloped; the second is 
broadly roundly curved outwardly; the first recurrent nervure is 
received near the base of the apical fourth of the cellule. Abdomen 
very smooth and shining, the apical margins of the segments not 
depressed. The clypeus is more strongly punctured than the 
front, its apex is a little raised; narrowly rufous, there being also 
a wider rufous line down the centre. There is no keel between the 
antenne. 
A distinct species. 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
MECONEMA VARIUM; A CorrecTion.—In the ‘ Entomologist’ for 
November, 1880, p. 252, the little leaf-cricket bred from the galls 
made on the oaks by Cynips kollari, and which Mr. Bignell saw 
emerge in the month of May, were, as is evident from the spotted 
legs of the one that has served for illustration, the young of Odon- 
tura punctatissima, said to frequent oak-trees, and not those of the 
verdant Meconema vartwm found on limes and on rose-bushes. This 
mistake has taken its origin from a remark made by Leopold Fischer in 
his ‘Orthoptera Europa,’ p. 241. I have found both these little 
creatures in the garden here in Devonshire at the close of the year.— 
A. H. Swinton; Totnes. 
[Whether the Orthoptera bred from galls of Cynips kollari were 
Meconema variwm or Leptophyes punctatissima, they were in either 
case Locustid grasshoppers and not crickets. As regards the full- 
grown grasshoppers, L. punctatissima is spotted, or rather irrorated, 
while M. variwm is not. But these specimens were so young that 
unless both species had been bred from the egg and we could make a 
comparison, if would scarcely be safe to say that Fitch (who wrote 
the article) is wrong. Possibly, too, Bignell may have bred them 
through. Meconema variwm is very common on oaks in the New 
Forest ; it would fare badly there for lime-trees. L. punctatissima is 
generally found on low-growing plants. Still the spotted appearance 
of the insect figured leads one to suspect L. punctatissima.—W. J. L.] 
ENTOM.—JANUARY, 1909. Cc 
