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Zoological Congress in the form in which it was presented by Dr. 

 Horvath to the Congress of 1910. 



By Dr. Horvath's plan the following controverted family names in 

 the Hemiptera will stand in the form in which we have long known 

 them: Plataspidae, Cydnidae, Pentatomidae, Pyrrhocoridse, Lygseidse, 

 Berytidas, Phymatidae, Cimicidas, Anthocoridse, Capsidaa, Hebridce, 

 Mononychidas, Jassidas, Cercopidae, Delphacidge, Flatidae, Psyllidae. 



In common with most European entomologists, Dr. Horvath has 

 followed Latreille in placing Salda Fabr. as a synonym of Acantliia 

 Fabr. I claim that Fabricius had the right to limit his own genus 

 Acanthia to Cime.r Icctularius Linn, and its allies 'and to establish his 

 genus Salda for the littoral species, and consequently I still use the 

 names Salda and Saldidac in place of Acanthia and Acanthildac, but 

 in all other cases I most heartily endorse Horvath's nomenclature. 



The Doctor has made an error in crediting me with being probably 

 the first to use the name Thyreocoridse for Cydnidse. The fact is I 

 have never used this name in that sense but only in place of Corime- 

 laenidse which I still consider a distinct family, or at least subfamily. 

 If merged with the Cydnidse it must fall as a synonym. E. P. VAN 

 DuzEE, Buffalo, N. Y. 



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