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accords with my Globiceps, but the elytra are indicated as 3 tin. long, 

 and the species is said to live on nut-trees (" in Corylo "). In Carniola 

 occurs very plentifully * a species (found also in Silesia on oak), viz., 

 Allceonotus distinguendus, H.-Schf., Fieb., Hem. Eur., p. 262, and I 

 am convinced that this is the true Cimex fulvipes, Scop. ; it must, 

 therefore, to my mind, be named Alloeonotus fulvipes, Scop. This is 

 the reason for the change of the name Globiceps fulvipes to Gl. 

 salicicola. A female of this last species was found by me on small 

 Salices, near Culbin Sands, at Forres, Scotland, in the summer of 

 1876. It lives in Finland on Salix rosmarinifolia and Betula nana. 



Acaxthia versus Salda, 1. c., No. 188 ; vol. xvi, p. 172. I think 

 Mr. Douglas has given good reasons for his opinion on the nomen- 

 clature of these insects : the name Salda may be employed for Fabri- 

 cius' Acanthia zoster ce, flavipes, etc., and the name Acanthia be 

 adopted for Cimex lectularius, Linn. 



Salda marqinella, H.-Schf. (D. et S., Catal.,54, 10), is only the 

 male of S. saltatoria, Linn. The sides of the pronotum are straighter 

 in the £ than in the ? . 



Salda vestita, E. M. M., vol. xvi, p. 173. I had regarded this 

 species as being a variety of S. pallipes, but this is not correct. I have 

 now examined specimens sent by Mr. Douglas to Dr. Sahlberg, and 

 found that the species belongs to the line 2, 1, c., p. 174 : " the anterior 

 tibiae with the base and apex black, and in the middle a rather short 

 line." After a careful examination and comparison with specimens 

 found by me in Scotland, I am sure that Salda vestita, is not a variety 

 of S. saltatoria, as Saunders regards it, but that it is the macropterous 

 form of S. stellata, Curt, (c-album, Fieb.).f The markings of the 

 elytra are the same, and the sides of the pronotum are straight, es- 

 pecially in <J . I found three specimens in company with stellata, 

 brachypt., which is very common in Scotland. In the macropterous 

 form, the pronotum is wider posteriorly, on account of the expansion 

 of the muscles of the wings. (The most part of the species of Salda 

 are crypto-dimorphous, having the elytra and wings of the brachy- 

 pterous form, yet not shorter, sometimes a little longer, than the 

 abdomen). 



* "Laibach, inter Rakik et Zirknitz, inter Adelsberg et Prevald frequenter, inter Klana et 

 Sabizhe" Reuter, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, 1875, p. 85, 52. A large number of specimens, 

 captured by Dr. Palmon. 



t It seems necessary to say that the identification of S. c album, Fieb., with S. stellata, Curt., 

 depends not only on the description, but on actual comparison with the type in Curtis's collection. 

 -J. W. D. 



