THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATLFRAL HISTORY, 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 16. APRIL 1909. 



XhU.—Rhi/nchofnl Notes.—XLVll. By W. L. DISTANT. 



Heteroptera. 

 Fam. Lygaeidge. 



Oriental Genera and Species. 



The following newly proposed genera and a number of the 

 new species here described will be figured in the Appendix to 

 the Rhjnchota in the ' Fauna of British India.' Thej all 

 pertain to the family Lygaeidge as hitherto understood; but 

 now a new departure has been advocated, and that well- 

 known family name is by some writers threatened with 

 suppression. As 1 retain the name used by all previous 

 and nearly all recent entomologists, some remarks are neces- 

 sary, especially as Bergroth, in patronising the change, has 

 written : — " As eminent hemipterists have already decided to 

 give up the family name Lygaeidai in the hitherto recogtiized 

 sense, I provisionally accept with Breddin the name Mj'odo- 

 chidas after the oldest genus of the family (^Ali/odocha, Latr.) " 

 (Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1908, p, 589). Breddin, however, 

 is not the " eminent hemipterist " who originally advocated 

 this idea, and Bergroth ought to have given the credit to 

 Kirkaldy, who, however, has not been consistent with 

 himself on the question, as he has subsequently proposed 

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