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U. S. Dep't. Agric. Division of Entom., Bull. No. 56. 



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Deutsche Entom. Zeitschrift, 1906, No. 1. 



Mr. Schaeffer made some remarks on Bradycinetus and Bolboceras. In the 

 Genera Insectorum, Boucamont places Bradycinetus as a subgenus of Athyrens, which 

 according to his own definition will not hold good. The principal characters separat- 

 ing the genera in this group are taken from the comparative width of the process separ- 

 ating the middle coxae. In Athyretis the middle coxae are separated by a process which 

 is very wide and as long as broad, which is not the case in the species of Bradycinetus 

 in which the process is always longer than broad and narrower between than behind 

 the coxae. Bradycinetus is more closely allied to Bolboceras than to Athyreus and 

 may even prove not to be distinct from the former genus when the 1 29 species of 

 Bolboceras are carefully examined. A new species from Arizona is in this respect 

 intermediate, having the process narrower than our other species. Our commom 

 Bolboceras farctus has the process with a tooth-like elevation and has also the eyes 

 completely divided (to which Linell has called attention) which makes the erection 

 of a new genus necessary. Bradycinetus hornii and B. minor have the intermediate 

 coxse nearly contiguous, the process separating them is very narrow which places 

 them in the genus Bolboceras. The different forms of the intermediate intercoxal 

 process in the genera Athyreus, Bradycinetus and Bolboceras were illustrated on the 

 blackboard and the North American species of the last two genera and also the North 

 American species of Copris were exhibited. Mr. Barber exhibited a few Hemiptera- 

 heteroptera from the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona and made some remarks concern- 

 ing the distribution of some of the species. Among them were the following : 



Chlorocoris hebetatus, C. subrugosus, C. n. sp. , Hymenarcys crassa, Bodisus 

 lineolalus, P. marginiventris, Stachyocnemis apicalis, Narnia femorata, JV. pallidi- 

 comis, A raphe Carolina, A. cicindeloides and Stenomacra marginella. 



H. G. Barber, 



Secretary. 



