THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXIIL] FEBKUARY, 1900. [No. 441. 



ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE GENERA OF THE RHYN- 

 CHOTA, HETEROPTERA AND AUCHENORRHYNCHOUS 

 HOMOPTERA. 



By G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. 



The present memoir consists of a chronological catalogue of 

 the works in which new genera have been proposed, or genotypes 

 fixed, or which are connected with the settlement of the generic 

 nomenclature of the Heteroptera and Auchenorrhynchous Homo- 

 ptera. I have indicated synonymy where the genera are homo- 

 typical, and have also adjoined the latest authoritative synonymy, 

 in most instances in footnotes. The memoir will be divided into 

 four parts, viz. : — 



1. A list of works from 1758-1843 (terminating with Amyot 

 and Audinet-Serville's ' Suites a Buffon, Hemipteres,' the 

 foundation of modern Ehynchotal science), with the genera, geno- 

 types, &c., therein contained. 



2. 1844-1876, concluding with the fifth volume of Stal's 

 monumental ' Enumeratio Hemipterorum.' 



3. 1877-1900, finishing with the last year of the present 

 century. 



4. An alphabetical recapitulation of all the genera from 

 1758-1900, and their types. 



This is, as I believe, the first time that these Rhynchota have 

 been taken in hand as a whole in such a manner ; and as I 

 cannot hope that I have succeeded to a greater extent than other 

 entomologists who have essayed work on similar lines, in alto- 

 gether avoiding errors of omission and commission, I beg my 

 colleagues who discover any mistakes to inform me, either per- 

 sonally or through the press, so that they may be amended in a 

 subsequent part of the work. To enable them to check my 

 results as readily as possible, a summary of the "rules" that I 

 held in view while conducting my researches are annexed. 



BNTOM. — FEBRUARY, 1900. D 



