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had a perfect right to do, and thus making it a valid genus related 

 to Largus, with cornuta as type. 



Genus Phymata Latr. — I wish to call attention here to the 

 fact that Handlirsch in his monograph on this genus has, perhaps 

 inadvertently, renamed the typical subspecies of Phymata erosa as 

 linnet Handl. Under the International Code it must be known as 

 Phymata erosa erosa Linn, with linnet as a synonym. It also seems 

 to me unquestionable that Stal was right in assigning Wolff's 

 description and figure of erosa to our northern form which he re- 

 names wolffi and of which subspecies pennsylvanica Handl. is a 

 straight synonym. Subspecies fasciala Gray is undoubtedly the 

 southern form included doubtfully by Stal under wolffi. Sub- 

 species fasciata Stal has been rightfully renamed by Handlirsch, 

 who calls it communis, assuming that he has correctly located it. 

 I am unable to understand why subspecies chilensis Handl. should 

 not be known as carinata Fabr., but as this form is from outside 

 our territory, I will leave this for others to work out. 



Genus Reduvius Fabr. — This genus was founded by Fabricius 

 in 1775 without designation of type. In 1801 Lamarck names 

 personatus Linn, as such type, a valid type-fixation having priority 

 over Fabricius' designation of fuscipes in 1803. While Stal was 

 wrong in accepting fuscipes as type of Reduvius, he was certainly 

 right in using angulosus Lep. & Serv. as the type of Harpactor 

 Lap., who distinctly names that species as type when founding the 

 genus. For the large genus Reduvius of Stal and Lethierry and 

 Servin ( = Harpactor of Am. & Serv.) we must use the name 

 Rhynocoris Hahn, 1834, with cruentus Fabr. (= iracundus Poda) 

 as the type. Our American species belong to this last genus. Of 

 the numerous subgenera used by Stal in this genus, I would/ 

 recognize but four or five, reducing the others to synonymy. The 

 subfamily Reduviina of Stal, 1872, must take the name Harpac- 

 torince, as that was the first name given to the group. It has 

 been so used by Amyot & Serville, Spinola, Dohrn, Puton, 

 Lethierry and Servin, Champion and Oshanin. There are two 

 fairly well marked tribes in this subfamily, the Harpactocorini 

 with the mesopleura tuberculate and the Zelini without the meso- 

 pleural tubercle. The former was named Hezeda by Stal in 1859, 

 but as I understand the International Code the typical subfamily 



