186 [Januaiy, 



This amendment is made on the authority of Eouter, I. c, where the full 

 synonymy is given. 



CeEATOCOMBTJS COLEOrTEATTJS. 



Anthoeoris coleoptrata, Zett., Act. Holm., 74, 24 (1819). 



Bryocoris muscorum, Fall., Hem. Suec., 153, 3 (1829). 



Ceratocomhtis muscorum, Fich., Eur. Hem., 143 (1861), D. & S., Brit. Hem., 



i, 514, 1 (1865). 

 Ceratocombus coleoptratus, Rent., Oef. k. vet. Ak. Forh., 406, 1 (1871). 

 Fallen, I. c, gives, as a synonym, Anthoeoris coleoptrata, Zett.? but Router, /. c, 

 cites this name as the prior one without any doubt. 



OCULATINA. 

 Salda versus Acanthia. 



In the Syst. Entom., 693, 159 (1775), Fabricius established the genus Acanthia, 

 the first or typical species being Cimex lectularius, L., and he included fourteen other 

 discordant species. 



In the Ent. Syst., iv, 67, 211 (1794), he preserved the genus Acanthia and in- 

 creased the number of species to 45, but still kept C. lectularius as the type. 



But in the Syst. Rhyng., 112, 20 (1803), he restricted Acanthia to two species — 

 lectularia, L., and hemiptera, Fab., and referred the species previously placed in the 

 genus to the new genera Salda, Aradus, Syrtis, and Tingis ; and this arrangement 

 has since been generally followed. 



Professor Stiil, however, in his " Enumeratio Hemipterorum," iii, 148 (1873), 

 has substituted the genus Acanthia, Fab., for Salda, Fab., but this is certainly in 

 contravention of Fabricius' idea, and therefore cannot be adopted. 



eedtjtina. 

 Nabis ehioetoetjm. 



Nalis ericetorum, Scholz, Arb. u. Verand, 113, 3 (1846), Ficb., Eur. Hem., 



160, 4 (1861), Rent., Ocf. k. vet. Ak. Forh., 76, 7 (1872). 

 Nahis dorsalis, D. & S., Brit. Hem., i, 557, 4 (1865), nee L. Duf., Fieb., nee 

 N.fuminervis, Dahlb., teste Renter, I. c. 



Nabis pilosulus. 



Nabis pilosulus, Ficb., Eur. Hem., 161, 7 (1861). 



Nabis boops, Schiodto, Kroyer Nat. Tids., 3 ser., vi, 200, 147 (1867). 



St''lia boops, Rent., Oef. k. vet. Ak. Forh., 95, 1 (1872). 

 On this species Renter, I. c, has founded his genus Stalia, but, as it appears to 

 us, there is not sufficient difference of structure to establish the genus. — J. W. 

 Douglas & J. Scott, Lee : October, 1874. 



Description of the larva, ^'c, of Anerastia lotella. — I am greatly indebted to 

 the kindness of Mr. Charles Or. Barrett for the opportunity of figuring and describing 

 larvED of this species, as well as their eases and cocoons, brought back by him from 

 his visits to the coast of Norfolk, — vide E. M. M., vol. vii, p. 63. 



The larva of this species resides in a tubidar case of considerable firmness, made 

 with grains of sand spun together ; the specimens of cases that I had were irregu- 

 lar in form, and varying in length from IJ to 2| inches ; the anterior portion of 

 the case is rather attenuated at the mouth, but increases from thence in diameter to 



