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ceeded in recognising some of tliem. and I confidently venture 

 to predict tliat any Hemipterist who takes tlie trouble to com- 

 pare my paper with a Cinglialese coUection , will easily be 

 able to identify any of my new species it may contain. 



Whether my genns Dicephalus is synonymous with Heni- 

 cocephalus Westw. or not, I do not see that I was greatly in 

 error in referring it proAdsionally to the lieduviidae. 



I will not lengtlien my present rejoinder by discussing 

 Karsch's strictures on my writings on (Jdonata , to wbich 

 Bergroth has gone out of his way to allude ; but I certainly 

 think that K a r s c h would not be so unfair as to deny that he 

 has found them very useful, although he has neglected to look 

 for Le'pthemis Blackburni Mc. Lachl. and ^Tischna viridis Eversm, 

 in the index to my Catalogue of Odonata, and has therefore 

 charged me with omitting them. The former will be found under 

 Orthetrum. pag. 36, n. 16 (the only error being that (Lepth. B.) 

 in brackets, should have followed the name); and the latter 

 under yEscJma, App. pag. 185, n. 39. 



Finally Bergroth asserts that "Distant has sliown 

 that the four new Cicadae described by Mr. Kirby are all 

 synonymous with known species". Distant's table is as follows : 

 Dunduhia mixta Kirb. =: Cicada viridis Fahr 

 Pomponia Ch-eeni Kirb. :=:: Povip. Ransonneti Dist. 

 Pomp, elegans Kirb. = Terpnosia Psecas Walk. 

 Cicada apicalis Kirb, = Tihicen nubifurca Walk. 

 No explanation is ofFered by Mr. Distant, except that the 

 various sjmonymic notes in his paper "have been rendered ne- 

 eessary by hasty and perfunctory work"; n-kose we shall pre- 

 sently see. And yet Bergroth considers the case proved! 

 Certainly no one eise would make a secondliand charge of whole 

 sale curelessness without having veritied it for himself. 



1 did not reply to Distant's observations before, partly 

 because I hoped to obtain additional material from Cejdon, and 

 partly because I waited to see the concluding parts of his 

 Monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. At present the real facts stand 

 thus: 



Dundubia mixta Kirb. 



The insect which S t a 1 (rightl}'' or wrongly) identifies with 

 Cicada viridis Fabr. is undoubtedly identical with G. bimaculata 

 Oliv. (== C. atrovirens Guer.) a Javanese species well figured 



