274 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Thriptocera crassipennis, Mg. 

 This species I bred in the spring of 1895 from its puparium, 

 which I found among moss near Ipswich. 



From the above it will be at once seen how much lepidopterists 

 can, by simply preserving the parasites they may happen to 

 breed, assist in the elucidation of the life-histories of insects of 

 quite distinct kinds. Is it too much to ask that all such may be 

 forwarded to me — more especially the hymenopterous species, 

 since it is upon those that I am especially engaged ?* and our 

 motto still is, " By mutual confidence and mutual aid " ! 



Monks' Soham House, Suffolk : Nov. 6tb, 1906. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND NOMENCLATORIAL NOTES 

 ON THE RHYNCHOTA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Mr. Kirkaldy's communication on the above subject {ante, 

 p. 247) necessitates some comment. He states, " The following 

 new names are necessary," in the Fulgoridae, and includes 

 Kirhyella to take the place of Kirhya, Melich. This unfortu- 

 nately creates a new synonym. 



Genus Kirbyana. 



Kirhya, Melich., Hom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 37 (1903), 7iom, 

 prceocc. 



Kirbyana, Dist., Faun. B. I. Ehynch. iii. p. 262 (1906, 

 March), n. nom. 



Kirhyella, Kirk., Entom. xxxix. p. 248 (1906, November). 



There appears to be no necessity for the proposed new name 

 Synaphana to take the place of Penthicus, nom. praeocc, PentJii- 

 codes, Blanch., having been already substituted. The type of 

 Guerin's genus Aphcena is A.fuscata, from New Guinea, which 

 is structurally distinct from the other species considered con- 

 generic. I have endeavoured to make the question clearer else- 

 where {cf. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii. p. 24). 



I quite agree with Mr. Kirkaldy that Coanaco, Dist., = Copido- 

 cephala, Stiil, having already published that correction elsewhere 

 {cf. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii. p. 23). 



It is also stated that Opinns, Lap., ^ Tapeinus, Lap., = 

 Sminthocoris, Dist., and that the writer does "not know why 

 Mr. Distant has added to the synonymy of this Reduviid genus." 



'■'''■ Many hundreds of lepidopterous hosts are recorded in my ' British 

 Ichneumons,' vols. i. and ii. : Keys, Whimple Street, Plymouth. 



