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Reduviidse. — For Tribelocephala orientalis DrsT. (1. c, p. 182) 

 I propose the name T. comparanda, the name orienialis being 

 preoccupied by Schouteden for an East-african species. 



Physorhynchus coprologus Ann. bas been correctly transferred to 

 the Acantbaspidinse by Distant (1. c, p. 195), but I do not think 

 it is an Acanthaspis as Distant suggests. The type is an apterous 

 imago, not an « immature » spécimen as Distant says. 



In 1902 Distant described the new genus Kliafra and says of it : 

 « anterior tibia? not provided with a distinct apical spongy furrow ». 

 As type of the genus is given Plat]imeris prœdo Stâl, of which 

 Distant had StAl's type before himself. Of this species Stâl cor- 

 rectly says : « fossa spongiosa tibiarum anteriorum circiter dimi- 

 dium tibiarum occupans ». In Kh. elegans Bredd. and ugandica 

 ScHOUT., which I know, the spongy furrow is of the same length 

 as in prœdo, and there can be no doubt that this is the case in ail 

 other species of the genus. Far from being absent, as Distant says, 

 the spongy furrow is thus exceptionally long and well developed in 

 Khafra. 



Nabidse. — For Arbela Distant (Rh. Br. Ind. V, 219) uses the 

 name Acanthohrachijs Fieb. and says that « Reuter has advocated 

 the substitution ofthe later name Arbela StAl, because Fieber had 

 neither given nor described a représentative species ». Reuter has 

 said nothing ofthe kind and has nowhere advocated such a prin- 

 ciple. On the contrary he states expressly (Mém. Soc. Ent. Belg. XV, 

 126) that he discordedthe name Acantliobrachys simply because it 

 is preoccupied (.Jekel, Goleoptera, 1857). 



Miridse (Capsidse). — In this family Distant has described 

 60 new gênera from India. Reuter has shown that 43 of thèse 

 gênera are impossible to locate from the utterly useless descrip- 

 tions, and in this family Distant's figures are of liltle avail. Develo- 

 ping the excellent fundamental principles for the classification of 

 this family laid down by Fieber and C. G. Thomson and adding new 

 ones Reuter has during many years' studies established a System 

 ofthe Miridse in which ail characters bave been properly conside- 

 red and which heyond question is the greatest achievement of 

 modem systematic Hemipterology. Of this System Distant seems 

 to hâve understood practically nothing and has substituted for it a 

 preposterous jumble of his own fabrication, impossible to unravel 

 without examination of his types. To cap the climax he does not 

 scruple (Rhynch. Brit. Ind. IV, p. 157) to speak of Reuter's 

 disastrous results in retarding a knowledge of that family » ! 



Lasiomiris Uneaticollis Reut. is correctly placed as a synonym of 

 albopilosus Leth. by Distant; I hâve seen Lethierry's type. 



