184 LJaiiuary. 



Under-side : as above, except as the transverse bands are suf- 

 fused witli dark brovrn, and that the anterior wing has a sub-apical 

 white spot. 



Female like the male but paler, with a white sub-apical spot on 

 the anterior wing. 



Exp., 2to inch. 



In my own collection, from the Gaboon (Rogers) and Camcroons 

 (Rutherford) . 



The largest known species in this genus. 



Oatlands, Weybridge : 



November, 1874. 



HEMIPTEEA: SYNONYMIC NOTES. 



BEETTINA. 

 Bebtttis minor, H.-Schf. 



Berytns commutatus (Fieb.), D. & S., Brit. Hem., i, 158, 7 (1865). 



The latter was retained as distinct in deference to tlie views of Fieber, but wo 

 now believe, as indeed we hinted at the time it was described {pp. cit. p. 160), that 

 it is only B. minor. 



LTG^IKA. 

 Deymus pilicoenis. 



Pachymerus pilicornis, Muls., Opusc, i, 118 (1852). 

 Rhyparochromus pilicornis, D. & S., Brit. Hem., i, 202, 1 (1865). 

 Brymus lattis, D. & S., Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, 25 (1871). 



When the insect was described under the last name, its identity with Mukant's 

 species was overlooked, but it was rightly determined as a Drymits. The original 

 example was returned to us by Fieber as P. pilicornis, Mulsant. 



Lampeoplax picErs. 



Pachymerus piceus, Flor, Ehyn. Liv., i, 251, 12 (1860). 

 Meyalonotus picetis, Fieb., Ent. Monats., vii, 55 (1863). 

 Lamproplax Sharpi, D. & S., Ent. Mo. Mag., iv, 214 (1868). 



The correctness of the suspicion expressed by us (Ent. Mo. Mag., iv, 265) tliat 

 this species might prove to be Flor's P. picetis, is verified by Dr. J. Sahlberg, who 

 writes to us, " Lamp. Sharpi agrees weU with Flor's Pachym. picetis, and appears 

 "without doubt to be the same species." 



Stethgteopis inoana, Fieb., Verb. k. k. Zool.-bot. GescUs., xx, 245, t. 5, fig. 8 

 (1870) ; D. & S., Ent. Mo. Mng., vi, 241 (1870), = Stygnocoris rusticus. 

 Fall, D. & S., Brit. Hem., i, 214, 1 (1865). 



The original specimen from which Fieber made his figure, and deduced the cha- 

 racters of his genus Stethotropis, -proves to be only the macropterous form of Stygno- 

 coris rusticus. The insect is altogether more robust than the ordinary brachypterous 

 form, the pronotum especially differing in being more convex, scarcely constricted at 

 the sides, and, therefore, more regularly trapezoidal, the antcunoB and legs are also 

 darker in coloiur. Fieber's genus wiU not stand. 



