332 Mr. W. L. Distant's Ehijnchotal Notes. 



(Ent. Month. Mag. xvi. p. 201). The specimen tlius iden- 

 tified and returned to the Bureau of Entomology is a dark 

 variety, and was originally described by Bergroth as a new 

 species ; but the mistake was detected before publication, 

 and the name altered. Thus the diagnosis refers to a form 

 of the species only, and does not represent its protean 

 character. 



Fam. Aradidae. 



Acantharadus giganteus. 



Acunthaiadus giganteus, Banks, Philipp. Jouru. Sci. iv. p, 580, p). xi. 

 %. 8 (iy09). 



I have recently examined a series of this species collected 

 by Mr. J. C. Moulton at Tabekang in Borneo, which agree 

 in all respects with the description and figure of the Philip- 

 pine type given by Banks, In the Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1911, p. 597, I referred to Bergroth's claim that this species 

 was a synonym of one he described from Penang in 1886 

 under the Neotropical genus JJysodicus {D. quafenarius, 

 Bergr.), and drew attention to the totally different structure 

 of the iiead in the figures of Bergroth and Banks. Bergroth 

 Jias recently and with some acerbity resented this comparison 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1913, p. 151), and suggested that I 

 had not regarded the sentence in his description " tylo 

 jugis multo breviore,'" and states that "the difference is 

 owing to the juga in [his] specimen being covered with 

 granules right on to the very tip (which makes them con- 

 tiguous on the inner side), while in Banks' specimen tiie 

 granules of the apical part of the juga are failing." This 

 contention is not supported, but absolutely disproved by the 

 series of Bornean specimens which I have examined. But 

 even ignoring this character, which I do not propose to do, 

 what are we to tiiink of the different length of the head, the 

 position of the eyes, and the different dentation of the lateral 

 margins of the pronotum as shown in the two figures? ISIo 

 one knows better than myself that an artist frequently over- 

 looks salient characters relied on by the describer; but tin; 

 line must be drawn somewhere, and Bergroth is asking too 

 much latitude in this contention. 



Fam. Membracidae. 



Otinotus Jcarentanus, n. nom. 



Otinotus paUipes, Dist. Faun. Brit. Ind., Rhyncli. iv. p. 40 (1907), nom, 

 prseocc. 



I have recently found that Centr'otus pallijyes, Walk.^ from 



