420 APPEN DIX. — PENTATOMlB-i:. 



A P P E N I) I X. 



Family PENTATOMID.E. (Vol. T, p. 1.) 



Since the description of this family — so far as British India is 

 concerned — was published in 1002, a considerable number of other 

 species have either been received or described by different workers ; 

 these genera and species ai'e now incorporated. Some corrections in 

 nomenclature are made consequent on the discovery of preoccupied 

 generic names, which the lists compiled by Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, 

 Dr. D. Sharp, and Dr. E. Bergroth subsequent to those of Mr. S. 

 H. Scudder have made possible. 



In all the families of Rhynchota (both Heteropterous and 

 Homopterous), which have been enuiuerated, attention has been 

 directed to the different views held by authors as to the families or 

 subfamilies in which certain genera and species should be located. 

 Two instances have to be referred to in connection with the Penta- 

 tomidsB of this fauna. The genus Eumeuotes, W^est. =^ Odonm, 

 Bergr., was placed by the latter writer in the Aradida3, a family 

 on which be is regarded as our first authoi'ity. In this course I 

 followed his direction (vol. ii, p. 155), merely remarking that it at 

 least should form the type of a new subfamily. Bergroth, however, 

 has recently (Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 498) stated that he 

 committed an error in so doing, and now considers that the genus 

 is really Pentatomid and represents anew division " Eumenotaria" 

 of the subfam. Tessaratominae. This is nearer the view of its 

 original describer, the late Prof. Westwood, who placed it in the 

 Pentatomidae near the genus Megymenum. Walker, who rede- 

 scribed the species, also considered it an Aradid. 



The second variant in taxonomy relates to the genus Parastrachia, 

 which I founded in 1883 and placed in the subfamily Pentatominse. 

 So good an authority as my friend Dr. Horvath took exception to 

 this view and stated (1889) that it should have been placed in the 

 Asopinse. Dr. Scbouteden, however (1907), who has recently 

 critically examined this subfamily and published an enumeration 

 of the same, dissents altogether^ from this pronouncement and 

 upholds my location. As a species of Parastrachia is now included 

 in our fauna, these remarks are necessary. 



As regards localities space will not allow additions to those 

 already given of a large number of s])ecies previously enumerated. 

 One, however, deserves mention. That very scarce species in 

 collections, Amhh/cara gladiatoria, Stal (vol. i, p. 217), is now re- 

 presented in the British Museum by a specimen collected by 

 Mr. Dodd in Queensland. 



