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trunks of apple trees, the ordinary form of Hartmanninna occurring 

 only on willows in the same neighbourhood. This is strongly sugges- 

 tive of the influence of the food upon colour. 



This also has been submitted to Prof. Zeller, with a very singular 

 result ; he says — 



" My North American alheolana ^ is similar on the anterior wings, 

 but has loliitish posterior wings ; hoth may be only scriptana, var." 



It would be strange if a North American insect should be proved 

 to be identical with a well-known European species, by the discovery 

 of a striking aberration of the latter. 

 Pembroke : llth March, 1878. 



REMAEKS ON SOME BEITISH SEMIPTERA-HETEROFTERA. 



33T O. M. REUTEE. 



{Continued from page 131). 



PiLOPHORiJS ciNNAMOPTEKUs (Cat., 34, 1). It is said (in vol. 



xii, p. 102), that Camaronotus cinnamopterus, Fieb., Dougl. and Scott, 



Brit. Hem., i, 359, 1, is not, as stated by Eeuterinhis " Ecvisio critica 



Capsinarum," part ii, 85, 1, the Cimex hifasciatus, Fab., Mantissa, ii, 



305, 264. Stal confirms Fieber's view, and refers the latter insect to 



the genus Glosterotomus of this author. 



But in the Syst. Ehyng., p. 242, Fabricius says, concerning his 

 Capsus hifasciatus : — 



" 7. C. ater, clytris testaceis, strigis duabus albis. 

 Lygaus hifasciatus, Eut. Syst., It, 177, 152. 

 Cimex clavatus, Linn., Syst. Nat., ii, 729, 97 ? 

 Habitat Lipsiae." 



This diagnosis agrees much better with P/ZopZ/orz/s (=Camarofiotus) 

 ciniiamopterus than with the Closteroiomus. The former has the elytra 

 fulvous or cinnamon-brown (= /es^flC(?«), with two snow-white, very 

 narrow, bands {strigai) across them ; the latter has the elytra fuscous 

 (scarcely paler than the head and pronotum),with three pale, testaceous, 

 rather broad bands {fascice), or in the ^ only one whitish band across 

 the cuneus. 



All the authors previous to Hahn have also regarded C. hifasci- 

 atus, Fabr., as not belonging to Glosterotomus. Schrank, in his Fauna 

 Boica, ii, p. 86," 1139, had described Filopli. cinnamopterus under 

 the name of " Cupsus hifasciatus. Fab., Syst. entom., 725, n. 142." 

 This is clear from Schrank's descriptions : " Liiuglich ; nussbraun ; 

 zwo sch-male Binden ilber die Halbdecken wtiss * * * 



