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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.K.). 



Face, front, pleurae, 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, obhquely 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 

 antennae. 



A distinct species. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Meconema varium ; a Correction. — In the ' Entomologist ' for 

 November, 1880, p. 252, the httle leaf-cricket bred from the galls 

 made on the oaks by Gynips koUari, 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- 

 tttra lounctatissima, said to frequent oak-trees, and not those of the 

 verdant Meconema variitm found on limes and on rose-bushes. This 

 mistake has taken its origin from a remark made by Leopold Fischer in 

 his ' Orthoptera Europsea,' 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 Cijnvps kollari were 

 Meconema varium 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. varium is not. But these specimens were so young that 

 unless both species had been bred from the egg and we could make a 

 comparison, it would scarcely be safe to say that Fitch (who wrote 

 the article) is wrong. Possibly, too, Bignell may have bred them 

 through. Meconema varium 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.] 



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