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was wrong in placing Arteniklorus in tiie Ileterogastrinse. Until he 

 lias done so, his opinion o( Arteniidorus cannot be taken seriously. 



As lo Eamenotes obscura Westvv. I had already stated in my 

 paper on tliis genus (Deutsche ent. Zeitschr., 1907, pp. 498-501) 

 both thatall Ibe three figures published of Ibis insect are faulty and 

 defective, and in what particular points they are so. In spite of the 

 discrepancies in the figures 1 bave no doubt tliat they ail refer to 

 the same species. I bave seen numerous spécimens of it from 

 Burma and many différent islands of tbe Malayan archipelago, and 

 may now add that tbe neuration of tbe membrane is very variable, 

 scarcely any two spécimens being alike in tbis respect, altbough 

 it is always more or less reticulated. VVhen Stâl wrote bis 

 « Enumeratio » vol. I, he did not know tbe insect, but, as Mr. Distant 

 correctlystates, 1 iiad overlooked that he mentions itin a subséquent 

 paper, placing it in the Dinidorina^. He bad apparently not noticed 

 tbe position of tlie spiracles of the lirst abdominal segment, and 

 I still regard tbe genus as forming a distinct division of the Tessara- 

 tominse. 



In 1904 Distant described a new genus Bandinus, placing it in 

 the subfamily Pentatominœ. I bave an uudescribed Australian genus 

 allied to Dandinus and it is quite possible that Dandinus was 

 correctly placed by Distant, aithough it is a rather ambiguous 

 form. Distant bas recently, following Schouteden, transferred the 

 genus to the Graphosomatinae and says : « When the wings of 

 many Pentatominse are examined we may except more inclusions 

 into the Graphosomatinae, which is at présent, with many gênera, 

 a somewbat difficult problem, if the wing-neuration is to be tbe 

 dominant factor. » As the wing-neuration is practically identical in 

 the Graphosomatinae and the Pentatominse, and as it in conséquence 

 never hitherto bas entered anybody's mind to consider tbe wing- 

 neuration a factor (still less a dominant one) in distinguishing thèse 

 subfamilies, I fail to grasp the fanciful suggestion just cited. If 

 Mr. Distant bas detected some character in the wing-neuration, 

 by which a Graphosomatin can be distinguisbed from a Pentatomin, 

 sucli a fact will forsooth be highly appreciated by ail hemipterists 

 and it is to be regretted that Mr. Distant puts his light under a 

 bushel. liy ail means, let us know ail aboutit, Mr. Distant. 



