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p. S. — Some time after I had sent the foregoing notes for publication, 

 I received, through the kindness of the author, Reuter's "Bemerkungen 

 iiber Nabiden," in Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., XV, 87-130 (1908). 



Renter does not accept Schiodte's divisions of Trochalopoda and 

 Pagiopoda, and apparently prefers to form the preliminary divisions of the 

 Heteroptera upon the shape of the ova. He also merges the Nepoide?e in 

 the Miroidese, and considers that the Nabidse are closely allied to the 

 Acanthiidae and Anthocoridcie. He, however, admits that my placing of 

 the Miridse and Notonectidse as terminal twigs is probably correct, and 

 throws much light on previously obscure points. 



As Dr. Renter may perhaps rediscuss the whole question after the 

 perusal of this contribution, I merely remark now that he has seemingly 

 overlooked the important fact that in the Miroidene the meso- and meta- 

 pleura are composed of more than one piece each, while this is not the 

 case in the Nepoideye. 



All through the above paper for "Cydnidse" read "Thyreocoridie," 

 and for "Urostylidse" read "Urolabididae." 



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