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understood the remark (written in German) immediately following 

 my description of DysodUis quaternarius. he woiild hâve seeu that 

 I then (1886) knew Barcmus only from description and regarded it 

 as doiibtfully distinct from the older geniis Dysodius. I now know 

 both Stâl's type of Barcinus and one of the species described by 

 Walker, and allhough I now at least provisionally maintain Bar- 

 cinus, Acantharadus and Dysodius as distinct gênera, they are very 

 closely alhed and I still regard Acantharadus as more allied to 

 Dysodius than to Barcinus. Distant adds : « More strangely still, 

 Bergroth says that the Malayan species D. quaternarius is the 

 same as A. giganieus Banks. Both thèse species bave been ligured 

 by the respective describers, and a référence to the figures will at 

 once show the great dissimilarity in the structure of the bead. 

 Banks describes the head in bis genus as « juga porrect, stylale, 

 passing tylus by its own lengtb », and this character, clearly sbown 

 in bis own figure, is absent in that given by Bergroth ». The 

 structure of the head is, however, only seeiningly dissimilar in the 

 •two spécimens and the différence is owing to the juga in my spéci- 

 men being covered with granules rigtit on to the very tip (which 

 makes them contiguous on the inner side) wbile in Banks' spéci- 

 men the granules of the apical part of the juga are faihng. This 

 variability in the development of thèse granules is of common 

 occurrence in the Aradids. A slight inaccuracy in my figure is 

 that the démarcation line of the tylus is not clearly marked, but it 

 is often partly covered with granules, and in my Latin description, 

 which Distant bas apparently failed lo understand, I expressly 

 ■said : « tylo jugis multo breviore ». If Mr. Distant will compare 

 many of his figures in the « Fauna of British India » with the 

 insects they are supposed to represent he will lind much stranger 

 things to meditate upon. 



6. Neuroctenus Weberi C. Banks, of which Mr. Banks sent 

 me types of both sexes, is identical with N. médius Bergr. (1894). 



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7. Glavigralla acantharis Fabr. (redescribed under the 

 names tuhercidata Dall. and quadrituhercidata Bredd.) also occurs 

 in the Philippine Islands. I bave seen spécimens agreeing with the 

 descriptions of Stâl, Dallas and Breddin. 



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8. When Stâl founded his genus Salacia he divided it into two 

 divisions, a and aa. On a new species of the division a Distant 

 later founded the new genus Cligenes, and a species of the division 



