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1900. | ON THE RHYNCHOTA IN THE HOPE COLLECTION. 807 
[From the ProcuEprnas oF THE ZooLocicaL Society or LonpDon, 
November 20, 1900.] 
Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the Family 
Pentatomide in the Hope Collection at Oxford. By 
"Gag ihe Disrant. 
(Plates LI. & LIT.) 
In the years 1837 and 1842 there were published at Oxford 
Parts I. and II. of ‘ A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the Collection 
of the Rev. F. W. Hope, which still form part of the well-known 
* Hope Collection ” in the Oxford Museum. Part I. bears no name 
of author, and the descriptions therein have very often been ascribed 
to Hope, as his name is appended to the nomenclature. Part II. 
is stated to have been written by the late Prof. Westwood, and 
there is no doubt that he was the author of both, and that conclusion 
is now generally followed by entomologists. 
The publication consists of short Latin descriptions of a con- 
siderable number of species considered as then undescribed; but 
of these many now rank only as synonyms and mostly require 
generic revision—a result which causes little surprise when the 
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