1878.1 24;} 



Die Fiihlhorner musclielbraun : das zweigte Glied am Eude achwarz, 

 die folgenden sehr diinn, das vierte am G-runde weiss. Die vordore 

 Binde der Halbdecken erreiclit kaum den Iniienrand." Fallen (Hem. 

 Sv., lis, 6) has confounded Piloph. clavattis and cinnamopterus nnder 

 the name of Gapsus bi/asciatus*), but Zetterstedt has described both 

 species under the names of clavatm (Ins. Lap., 278, 8) and hifasclatus 

 (/. c, 277, 2), the latter being = cinnamopterus of Kirschbavim. I have 

 seen the typical specimens of Fallen and Zetterstedt in the Museum 

 at Lund. Also Hahn, in his " Icones " (i, tab. 23), regards the Gapsus 

 hifasciatus, Fabr., as synonymous with the true clavatus, giving the 

 species the name of Pilophorus hifasciatus. Herrich-SchJiffer, in 

 Nomencl. entom., has cited hifasciatus under claratus,^ and the same 

 author has described Glosterotoinus hifasciatus, Hahn, et auct. recent,, 

 as a new species, under the name of Gapsus hiclavafus (p. 48) ; nnder 

 this name, the species is also preserved in the Museum of the Uni- 

 versity at Berlin. 



In the "Wanz. Ins., Band iii, fig. 232, Hahn, has, however, figured 

 this last species (?) as Phytocoris hifasciatus, and has cited (p. 7) as 

 synonymous, Gapsus hifasciatus, of Fabricius (!), of Fallen (!) and 

 of Herrich-Schaffer (!), and also Lygceus hifasciatus, Fabr., and Gimex 

 sphefjiformis, Kossi (!). But in the same volume, fig. 265, Glohiceps 

 sphegiformis is figured as mas of " Gapsus hifasciatus, Fabr.," and, as 

 synonyms, are noted : " Gapsus id., Zett., Fabr., and Fallen (Hemipt. 

 No. 6. — Cim. No. 5 cum G. clavato confusus)."J Thus Hahn has 

 figured and described as hifasciatus, of Fabricius, three generically dis- 

 tinct species, viz. : Pilophorus clavatus (Icon., i, t. 23), Glosterotomus 

 hifasciatus, Fieber (= Galocoris hiclavatus, H-.Sch., mihi), and Glohi- 

 ceps sphegiformis, Rossi (W. I., figs. 232 and 205) ; but he knew 

 not the true Fabrician species with the diagnosis : " ater, elytris 

 testaceis, strigis duabus albis." 



The more recent authors are also very doubtful concerning the 

 application of the name hifasciatus (vide Kirschbaum, Kh. AViesb., p. 

 109, 35). Flor has not cited Fabricius under " Gapsus hifasciatus, 

 Hahn " (p. 488, 11), but under G. clavatus ; and Fieber has cited 

 Gapsus hifasciatus, Fabr., both under Glosterotomus and under Gamar- 

 onotus clavatus ! Stal has not mentioned Glosterotomus hifasciatus in 



* The Closterotomxis is not yet found in Sweden. 



t The Capsua bi/asciatus of IIcrricli-ScbilfTur (Xoiiicucl., p. 48), bowevur, — Glohiceps sphegi- 

 formis, Ro.S8i. 



t " L. niger, antenn.iriim articulo prinio pcdibusquc forrui^incis, coxis ct tri)chanteribii.s 

 albidis : fasciis elytronuii duabus argcuteia ; thoracis .iiiifulis auticiw iii fonua deutiuui adscen- 

 dentibus. 



