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Sf. steqanoides, J. Salilb. (Notls. Fauna Flora renu.,xiv, p. 306), "which 

 may be regarded as only a dark variety of St. leucocepliala. The form 

 occurs in Bussian Lapland (Sahlberg), I have found it in company with 

 the typical form near Stockholm, and Dr. Gredler has sent me speci- 

 mens from Tyrol. 



Anthocobis sakothamjSti (Saund., Syn., p. 618). Referring to 

 this species, Mr. Saunders says that it is only " a dark, nearly black, 

 variety of A. oiemoralis, with entirely black antennae." He adds that 

 he had " repeatedly found it with the paler forms and intervening 

 varieties." At Forres, in the North of Scotland, A. sarothamni was 

 very common during the summer of 1876, on the broom, and I col- 

 lected a great multitude of this species, but I could not find any 

 " intervening varieties " between it and A. nemoralis. I regard them 

 therefore as good, different species, and more especially because they 

 are also distinguished by some characters which Mr. Saunders seems 

 not to have observed, and which I will note in the following 

 parallelism : — 



1. Hemielytra witli the whole cuneus and the posterior half of the embolium 

 and also of the corium very shining. All the three veins of the membrane very 

 distinct, elevated A. SAHOTHAMNI, D. et S. 



2. Hemielytra opaque, with only the cuneus and the apex of embolium shining. 

 Membrane with three veins, of which the exterior is the most elevated, the inter- 

 mediate less pei'spicuous and the interior nearly obsolete. 



A. NEMOEALis, Fabr., auct. 



Anthocoris 3li)ihi, Dohrn (Stett. ent. Zeit., 1860, p. 162), is a 

 variety of A. nemoralis, which species varies very much in colour, and 

 sometimes has the antennae quite black, as in A. sarothmnni ; but all 

 these many varieties are nevertheless distinguished by the above- 

 mentioned characters, which differentiate them from the mostly smaller 

 A. sarothamni. 



AcOMPOCOEis KEMOEALis (Cat., p. 95). Following Prof. Stal 

 (Hem. Fabr., i, 90, 1), Messrs. Douglas and Scott have accepted the 

 name nemoralis for A. pygmceus. Fall., considering Acanthia or Salda 

 nemoralis, Fabr. (E. S., iv, 76, 35, and S. E,., 116, 15), to be the same 

 as that species. But if A. pygmceus in the typical collection of Fabri- 

 cius is put under the above-cited name, this must have been by mistake. 

 The diagnosis of Fabricius in S. E. is the following : " S. atra elytris 

 puncto medio albo, alls [= membrana !] fuscis basi albis ;" and he says 

 further, " Habitat in Selandise Quercu." These characters do not agree 

 with A. pygmcEUS (but accord with Anthocoris nemoralis, auct.) ; and 

 the Acomjjocoris lives not in oaks, but in Finus sylvestris. 



