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lobes, no styles. Ovipositor sharply incurved, nearly straight above beyond the 

 basal curve, regularly incurved below, with very minute crenulations. 



Length of the body, 14 — 18 mm. Length of the elytra, 20 mm. 

 „ „ wings, 28 mm. „ „ ovipositor, 5 mm. 



This insect is included here in the hope that it may really turn 

 out to be a British species, but at present our only claim to it as such 

 rests on the occurrence of a single example taken by Dr. Mason in 

 September, 1881, at Porthgwarra, near Land's End (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 XX, p. 186), and this may, as Mr. McLachlan suggested, have found 

 its way ashore from some passing vessel. Brunner gives the limits of 

 its northern distribution in Europe as 48°, and de Selys does not 

 mention it from Belgium. 



iii.— MECONEMA, Serv. 

 The sub-family of Ileconemida, to vfhich this genus belongs, is 

 peculiar in having no stridulating organ in the male elytron, and the 

 anterior tibije bear no apical spines. ^ There are two European genera 

 and three species. In Meconema the species have a small pronotum, 

 fully developed free elytra and wings, no spines on the anterior 

 coxae, and a smooth ovipositor. 



1. — Mecoxema tarium, Eab. 

 Lociista varia, Eabr., Ent. Syst., ii, p. 42. 



Gryllus varius, Donovan, Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins., iii, tab. 79, fig. 1. 

 Meconema varia, Steph., Mandib., vi, p. 15. 



Mec. varium, Eisch., Orth. Eur., p. 240, tab. xii, figs. 19, 19rt, 20 ; 

 Brunner, Prod, der Eur. Orth., p. 296, fig. 68. 

 Pale green. Head with the edge of the vertex produced into a tubercle ; an- 

 tennse long, with fuscous rings at intervals, and the internal margins of the cups in 

 which the antennse are seated considerably elevated. Eyes very prominent. Pro- 

 notum short, without any humeral sinus, with a median, longitudinal, yellowish 

 streak, and a slight median ridge behind the cross furi'ow, on each side of which is a 

 small fuscous streak (sometimes absent). Elytra and wings perfectly developed in 

 both sexes ; broad, with two distinct radial veins, no stridulating organ in (J. "Wings 

 cydoid, hyaline, with green veins. Femora slender ; anterior tibiaj with an open 

 foramen on either side ; without any spines above, and with four on each side below. 

 Tarsi with the first two joints sulcate at the side. Cerci in ^ long, smooth, con- 

 siderably incurved, somewhat clubbed towards the apex. Ovipositor as long as the 

 abdomen, incurved, smooth, tapering gradually. Subgenital lamina in ? triangularly 

 produced. Length of the body, 12 — 15 mm. 



,, „ ovipositor, 9 mm. 



From August to November on trees, chiefly oak. May be best 

 procured by beating. Kensington Gardens, Bromley, West Wickham, 

 Boxhill, Dartford, Easton-Maudit (Northants), &c. The late Mr. 

 Kemp- Welch took it plentifully near Lyndhurst, and Mr. Porritt tells 

 me he has specimens fi'om Edlington Wood, near Doucaster, and from 

 near Bedford. 



