-1380] Nepidae 461 



Herrich-Schaeffer, Wanz. Ins., viii, p. 19, 1848. 

 Spinola, Tavola Sinot., p. 48, 1850. 

 Fieber, Genera Hydroc, p. 23, 1851. 

 Flor, Ehyn. Livl., i, p. 756, 1860. 

 Fieber, Europ. Hemip., pp. 31, 101, 1860. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forb., xviii, p. 202, 1861. 

 Stal, Hemip. Afr., iii, p. 185, 1865. 

 Douglas and Scott, Brit. Hemip., p. 583, 1865. 

 Montandon, Bui. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xii, p. 107, 1903. 

 Kirkaldy and Bueno, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., x, p. 202, 1908. 

 tHepa Geoffrey, Hist. Abreg. des Ins., i, p. 479, 1762. 

 Fourcroy, Ent. Paris., p. 221, 1785. 



1379. Nepa apiculata Uhl. 

 IHiler //) Harris, Treat. Ins. Tnj. Veg., edn. 3, p. 12, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1862. 

 Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, p. 440, 1878. 

 Uhler, Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 253, 1884. 



:\[ontandon, Bui. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, viii, p. 511, 1898; xii, p. 101, 1903. 

 Bueno, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, p. 44, 1905. 

 Bueno, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xviii, p. 180, 1910. 

 Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., edn. 3, p. 157, 1910. 

 Severin, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xix, p. 99, 1911. 

 Severin, Behavior Monographs, i. No. 3, 1911 (death feigning). 



•^cincrea Ferrari, Ann. k. k. Nat. Hofm. Wien, iii, p. 191, 1888 (part). 



Localities: Quebec, Ont., Mass., E. I., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Md., 

 D. C, Ga., Ohio, Mich., 111. (Mexico.) 



Genus Curicta Stal 

 Haplotype scorpio Stal 



Stal, Of. Yet. Akad. Forh., xviii, pp. 202, 203, 1861. 

 Stal, Hemip. Afr., iii, p. 185, 1865. 

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 352, 1901. 

 Montandon, Bui. Soc Sci. Bucarest, xii, p. 97, 1903. 

 Kirkaldy, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxxii, p. 154, 1906. 

 Kirkaldy and Bueno, Proc Ent. Soc Wash., x, p. 202, 1908. 



HeloteniJies Berg, Hemip. Argent., p. 194, 1879 (type bonaerensis Berg). 

 Nepoidea Montandon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xxxix, p. 476, 1895 (type 



[volxemi Montd.). 

 1380. Curicta howardi Montd. 

 Montandon, Bui. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xviii, p. 181, 1910. 

 Locality: Texas. 



Genus Ranatra Fabr. 

 Logotype lineai'is (Linn.) 



Fabricius, Nova Ins., Genera mi Skrift. Nat. Selskabet, i, p. 227, 1790. 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst., iv, p. 64, 1794. 



Latreille, Precis, p. 87, 1797. 



Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., iii, p. 252, 1802 (names linearis as example). 



Walekenaer, Fauna Paris., ii, p. 335, 1802 (linearis only species). 



Fabricius, Syst. Ehyn., p. 108, 1803. 



Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., xii, p. 280, 1804 (gives linearis as example). 



Latreille, Genera Crust. Ins., ill. ]>. 148, 1907 (linearis only species). 



