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words on colour characters and a "slight margination of the pro- 

 notum, etc.," for "vittata." The only vittata in this genus is already 

 the type of the synonymic genus Tynotoma Am. & Serv. Both 

 his new subgenus and his species "vittata" are absolutely unrecog- 

 nizable, except as we may assume that his disconnected remark 

 concerning an American species of Leptocoris may refer to this, 

 and thus identify his "vittata'" with trivittata Say. Kirkaldy was 

 very severe in his criticisms of others for the use of colour characters 

 and incomplete descriptions, but no one used colour characters 

 more or gave us more fragmentary and unrecognizable descriptions. 

 It is greatly to be hoped that some competent Hemipterist will 

 work out Kirkaldy's oriental genera and species while the types 

 are still available and thus locate, and I might say validate them, 

 for us. 



Genus Neides Latr. — Latreille founded Neides in 1802 with 

 two species, tipularius and clavipes, and in 1810 named tipularius 

 as its type. Fabricius founded Berytus in 1803, and then named 

 tipularius as its type. I can see no reason why these genera should 

 not be considered strictly identical and every writer so far as I 

 can learn so considered them until 1860, when Flor divided the genus, 

 placing clavipes in Neides, founding Sphalerocoris for tipuloides 

 and restricting Berytus to rafescens. Fieber the next year retains 

 Neides for tipularius and its allies, and Berytus for clavipes and 

 its allies, in which he is followed by Puton (1886), Lethierry and 

 Sevrin (1894), and Oshanin (1906 and 1912). Reuter (1888), on 

 the contrary, places tipularius as the type of Berytus and clavipes 

 as the type of Neides, and in this is followed by Bergroth in 1906. 

 I believe Kirkaldy was entirely right in considering these genera 

 as homotypical and that he was justified in renaming Berytus 

 Fieb. as Berytinus. The family thus becomes Neididce, not Bery- 

 tidce. Most European Hemipterists seem to have overlooked 

 genus Podicerus Dumeril founded in 1824 with tipularius as type. 

 In the Journal of the New York Entomological Society for 1911 

 (Vol. XIX, p. 24), Mr. H. G. Barber places my Jalysus perclavatus 

 as a synonym of Hoplinus multispinus Ash mead, and suggests 

 that my redescription of the species was owing to the poor character- 

 ization of Ashmead's species. This, however, does not fully state 

 the case. The difficulty here is that Ashmead's description does 



