22 [January, 



State. Mr. R. S. Bagnall exhibited and read notes on many rare species of Coleop- 

 tera, Thysanoptera, and Aptera from Northumberland, Durham, and Scotland, of 

 which ten were new to Britain. Mr. L. W. Newman, a long and varied series of 

 Ennomos autumnaria (alniaria), a series of Polia manthomi&ta (nigrocincta) bred 

 from ova and fed on carrot, the specimens unusually large (N. Cornwall), three 

 pairs of hybrid Notodonta ziczac <J , dromedarius ?, = newmani, Tutt, three very 

 fine Xylina eonformis bred by Evan John, South Wales, three cocoons (in situ) of 

 Dicrannra bicuspis collected wild in Tilgate Forest, and a fine melanic ? Oporabia 

 Jihdata taken wild in Bexley Woods, 1907. Dr. F. A. Dixey, male and female 

 specimens of a new Belenois allied to R. zochulii, Boisd., but quite distinct from 

 the zochalia group. These were captured by Mr. Wiggins in the Tiriki Dills, 

 north-east of the Victoria Nyanza. Professor E. B. Poulton read a paper com- 

 munication from Dr. Mcnteith Ogilvie on "The Natural Enemies of Bombyx rubi 

 in Scotland." lie also exhibited specimens in further illustration of his notes 

 on the Convergence of Limenitis (Basilarchia) read at the last meeting. Mr. J. C. 

 Moulton read a note on the Rest Attitude of Hyria auroraria. Mr. A. H. 

 Swinton communicated a paper on " The Family Tree of Moths and Butterflies, 

 traced in their Organs of Sense." Mr. E. Meyrick, " Notes and Descriptions of 

 rterophorides and Orneodidw." Mr. R. Shelford, " Studies on the Blattidse." The 

 Rev. K. St. A. Rogers, introduced by Professor E. B. Poulton, " Notes on the Bio- 

 nomics of British East African Butterflies," and exhibited many examples collected 

 by him, and from the Hope Museum, Oxford, to illustrate his remarks.— II. Row- 

 LAND-Bbown, Hon. Sec. 



ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF SOME (BRITISH) HEMIPTERA- 

 HETEROPTERA 



BY PROF. O. M. RETJTKR. 



In the September number (1907) of this Magazine, pp. 190-202, 

 the eminent British Hemipterologist, Mr. Saunders, has published an 

 article, " Additions to the list of British Hemiptera- Heteroptera since 

 1892," when his excellent work on " The Hemiptera- Heteroptera of 

 the British Islands" came out. In this article he has indicated the 

 various changes of synonymy which have seemed to him "necessary 

 to bring the British nomenclature more or less in line with that of 

 the continent ;il authorities. " He has here adhered as much as possi- 

 ble to the nomenclature given in Dr. Puton's " Catalogue des Hemip- 

 tercs de la faune palcarctique, 1899." 



In 1888 I published my " Revisio synonymica Heteropterorum 

 palsearcticorum, qua) descripterunt auctores vetustiores " (Acta Soc. 

 Scient. Fenn., xv, pp. 2-41-313,443-812), in which I have tried strictly 

 to carry out the principle of priority. On account of this I changed 

 the common names of 84 species and several genera, which had ac- 



