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10. Syromastes marginatus, L.,= Mesocerus (Kent.) id. 



11. Verlusia rhombea, L , = Syromastes quadratus, F. The genus Syromastes 

 was set up in 1825 by Lutreille without indicating any species, with a diagnosis 

 which only mentioned that the structure of the antenna* distinguished it from 

 Gonocerus. In 1832 Laporte set up Coreus quadratus as a type for the genus, and 

 it was not before 1835 that Burmeister brought in C. marginatus, L., here. The 

 name Syromastes ought therefore indisputably to be maintained for the species of 



Verlusia. 



PSEUDOPHLCEINA. 



12. Coreus, Burm., Saund., nee Fab., = Coriomeris, Westw. Coreus denticu- 



laltts, Scop., = Coriomeris id. 



BERYTINA. 



13. Neides, auct., = Berytus, Fabr. Berytus, auct., = Neides, Latr., Reut. 



The genus Neides was founded by Latreille, 1802, for two species {tipularius, L., 



and clavipes, F.) without indication of the type. In 1803 Fabricius erected the 



genus Berytus with the type tipularius, thus indirectly fixing clavipes as the type 



of Neides " (Kirkaldy, Entomol., 1900, p. 26). Conformably to this I have already 



in Rev. Synon. used the above mentioned names. Later on (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 



vii, 1905, p. 28) Kirkaldy has certainly, applying the s. c. " historical" method, 



fixed tipularius as the type for Neides, and formed a new genus name Berytinus 



for clavipes and others of the same genus. In conformity with Bergroth (Wien. 



Ent. Zeit., 1906, p. 10), I consider, however, the former proceeding more simple. 



" Die historische Methode laitet nicht zu befriedigenden Resultate " (Bergroth, 



/. c, p. 9). 



LYGJEINA. 



14. Lygxus equestris, L., = Eulygxus id. Kirkaldy has (Entomol., 1899, p. 



220) pointed out how Fabricius' type for the genus Lygieus is a Coreid, L. valgus, 



L. (= Ho/opterna, id.), and that thus the genus Roloptema, Stal, ought to be 



called Lygseus, F. For Lygieus, auct. (Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., xxxvi, 1904, p. 96), he 



has proposed the name Stalagmostethus. I have, however, previously (Rev. Syn., 



p. 550) called this genus Eulygxus. But Bergroth says (Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1906, 



p. 10) : " Das sogenannte Gesetz der ' bon sens ' kommt selten zur Anwendung, 



lasst sich aber wohl nicht ganz umgehen. Kirkaldy's Einfuhrung des inveterier- 



ten Nainens Lygxus, Fabr. fur die Coreiden Gattung Hoploptema, Stal, und die 



daraus als Konseguenz folgende Umanderung der Familien— Namen Coreidx und 



Lygxidx in resp. Lygseidse und Geocoridx dur fur wohl niemals allgemein akzep- 



etiert werden." 



APHANINA. 



15. Stygnus arenarius, Hahn, =fuligineus, Geoff r. I avail myself of this oppor- 

 tunity to point out the incorrectness in quoting, as Saunders also has done in his 

 article, Fourcroy as the author instead of Geoffroy. The former was only publisher 

 of Entoinologia Parisiensis, 1785, which was an abridged edition of Geoffroy's 

 " Histoire abregee des Insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris " (1762), in 

 which latter work the binary nomenclature was not yet in use. Geoffroy has him- 

 self given all the new names in Entom. Par., and therefore he and not Fourcroy 

 ought to be mentioned as the author. See Reuter, Rev. Syn., p. 287. 



16. Aphanus rolandri, L., = Aphanus id. This species is the type for Laporte'a 



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