538 DESCRIPTIONS OF 



Fabr. 1 He did not include, as Burmeister and Germar do, 

 the broad-headed insects, closely allied to the globus division, 

 in his genus Thyreocoris, for we find him shortly afterwards 

 publishing in the appendix to ' Bowdich's Mission to Ashan- 

 tee' a large red-spotted black species as the Canopus punc- 

 tatus. 2 Wolff regarded the Tetyra lateralis, Fabr., 'Icones 

 Cimicum'jtab.l?, fig. 169, a species near the Tel. Scarabceoides 

 as the type of the genus T/tyreocoris, — see his posthumous 

 MSS. published by his father in the preface to the 5th fascicle 

 of his elaborate and indispensable work. By Burmeister, 3 

 Spinola 4 and Germar, 5 all three terms are employed, though 

 in many instances in different acceptations. 



Hope, 6 Halm, 7 and Laporte 8 reject, and perhaps very 

 properly, the names of Telyra and Thyreocoris; the two 

 first give the name to that division to which the first species 

 to be described belongs, while Laporte applies to the genus 

 the name of Graphosoma. I follow the example of Laporte, 

 Spinola, and partly of Germar in the application of the name, 

 for though Lamarck afterwards quoted the Cimex linealus as 

 forming part of his genus Sculellera, (Hist. Nat. des Anim. 

 sans Vert. iii. p. 491) his originally described character of the 

 sculellum entirely covering the hemelyira, would have exclu- 

 ded it. (Systeme des Anim. &c. p. 293.) 



With regard to the second species, I follow Laporte, Spi- 

 nola and Westwood, in giving the generic name of Coptosoma, 

 Laporte, to that small-headed, 2-jointed-/arms division, of 

 which Cimex globus is the type, while to the broad-headed 



« Zoological Miscellany, vol. I. p. 36 (1814).— The Doctor's MSS. in a 

 very useful compendium of British Annulosa, published by Mr. Samouelle. 

 Encyc. Edin. vol. ix. quoted by Mr. Stephens in the second part of his 

 Systematic Catalogue, p. 338. 



2 P. 496 (Appendix No. 4). Mr. G. R. Gray has published a figure and 

 description of this species in the 2nd vol. of Griffith's Translation of Cuvi- 

 er's Animal Kingdom, p. 233, pi. 92, fig. 2. It may be mentioned that it 

 is in the 4th Appendix of Bowdich's Mission that Leach instituted the ge- 

 nera Teffius and Pelrognatha, the Carditis Meyerlei,~Fabr. being the type of 

 the former, and the Lamia gigas, Fabr. of the latter ; so that the name 

 Omacanlha of Serville must give place to Pelrognatha on the score of 

 priority, Bowdich's Mission having been published in 1819, and the 4th 

 volume of theAnuales de Soc Entom.de France, containing Serville's dis- 

 tinguished labours, in 1835. 



3 Handbuch &c. ii. 1 abth. Berlin, 1835. 

 4 Essai sur les genres d'Insectes appartenants a l'ordre des Hemipteres, 

 &c. Genes. 1837. 



5 Zeitschrift fur die Entomologie, heft 1, 1839. 



6 Catalogue of Hemiptera, London, 1838. 



7 Essai &c. in Guerin's Magasin de Zool. 1832. 



8 Wanzenartigen Insecten, Nurnberg, 1831. 



