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RlioijaJimorpha simUls, Mayr, is, I feel pretty sure, the same as 

 obscii?'a, White. Dr. Mayr says that similis differs from obscura in 

 having the 2nd joint of the antennoB longer than the 3rd, but in the 

 figure of ohscara (Voy. Ereb. and Terror, pi. 7, fig. 8) the antemic'e 

 are so formed. The other points of difference are merely in colour, 

 and my specimens show all the points of both, except the lighter 

 coloured baud (very indistinct in the figure) between the hind angles 

 that ohscura is described as having, and which may have been an indi- 

 vidual peculiarity in the specimen described by my namesake. In the 

 meantime, therefore, I consider similis synonymic with ohscura. 



13. Anuhis vittatus (= Acanthosoma vitfatum, F.). 



Messrs. Broun, Hutton, and "Wakefield. Common. 



I suppose Dallas' determination of this species is correct. The 

 only description I have seen is in the Sy sterna Rhyngotorum (105 . 52), 

 and is very short. In that work it is said to be a native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope ; but I believe it is not known as an African species. 

 Stal places it in his genus Anubis. 



(To be conii>iue^J. 



Note on the British species of Pilophorus. — Dr. Reuter's characters of our three 

 species of this genus are most clear and precise, and, to my mind, distinguish them 

 apart perfectly. The reason why I did not admit perplexus as a species in my 

 synopsis ■was, that all the specimens in my collection were clearly referable to one 

 species. I had dark specimens named as perplexus, and light ones as cinnamopterus, 

 and I had reasons for thinking that these forms represented the two species as 

 defined by Mr. Scott. On referring, however, to Dr. Renter's table in your last 

 number, I see that all mine are clearly referable to perplexus. Since I wrote my 

 synopsis, I have received the true hifasciatus = cinnamopterus, taken from fir trees 

 (all my others are, I believe, from oaks), and I am bound to confess that I did not 

 sec the difference between it and p)erplexus, before reading Dr. Renter's remarks. 



In " British Kemiptera," Messrs. Douglas and Scott appear to have included 

 both species under cinnamopterus, as they say : " One example beaten from Pinus 

 sylvestris, * * and two others off oaks." Their description, however, appears 

 to be taken from the true hifasciatus. 



The fact that the hifasciatus of my synopsis = perplexus, explains the character 

 there given : "narrower than clavatus." — Edward Satjndeks, Holmesdale, Upper 

 Tooting : nth April, 1878. 



Note on Trioza cegopodii, Low. — At p. 228, ante. Dr. Low has described a new 

 Trioza, T. cegopodii, and noted it as taken in " Fennia." This is not quite correct, 

 for the specimens, sent by me to Dr. Low, wore not found in Finland, but were 

 taken near Stockholm by Prof. Boheman. — O. M. Reuter, Ilelsingfors : 1th April, 

 1878. 



