318 Mr. W. L. Distant on Ileteropteva. 



two otlier new names for the same purpose. Kirkaldy's 

 contributions to the elucidation of the question are as 

 follows : — 



Myodochidce^LygcBidce auclt., Kirk. Entomologist, xxxii. 



p. 220 (1899). 

 Qeocoridce= LygcBidce auctt., Kirk. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hi^t. 



Soc. xiv. p. 306 (1902). 

 Pyrrhocoridce=:-Lyg(Bidce-\-Pyrrhocorid(B auctt.. Kirk. Faun. 



Hawaiien. iii. pt. ii. p. 158 (1902). 



We will leave these propositions by sugofestinor that 

 Kirkaldy may not have yet pursued all his bibliological 

 investigations, and that he may probably have neither said 

 nor used the last word. Breddin, in following Kirkaldy's 

 first lead, has not stated why he has subsequently deserted 

 his further suggestions, while Bergroth adds no finality by 

 stating that he ''^provisionally accepts^ The question solely 

 and entirely depends on whether the name of a family should 

 be founded on the name of the earliest genus contained in 

 that family, and therefore less requires tlie attention of an 

 eminent hemipterist so much as that of a good bibliographical 

 clerk. And what good results from such a procedure? The 

 evil is manifest in the addition to the labours and enigmas of 

 the zoological recorder, and the consequent hindrance to the 

 study of the family itself. To admit the principle in the 

 llhynchota ^vould be to advocate a thorough confusion in the 

 nomenclature of all branches of zoology. I have previously 

 ventured to discuss the question in connexion with the name 

 of the family Capsidae (Faun. Brit. lud., Rhynch. vol. ii. 

 p. 413). 



^tJialotus indicatusy sp. n. 



Above black; pronotum and corium finely, thickly, ob- 

 scurely pilose ; lateral margins of the pronotum (not reaching 

 basal angles) dull sanguineous ; head beneath, sternum, and 

 legs black, prosternum dull sanguineous ; abdomen beneath 

 dull yellowish white, the apical segment black; coxaj a^nd 

 trochanters dull ochraceous ; vertex (including eyes) twice as 

 broad as long ; ocelli about twice as far removed from each 

 other as from eyes, between the ocelli a broad longitudinal 

 impression, the margins of which are slightly ridged ; antennae 

 black, concolorous, second and third joints almost equally 

 long, fourth longer than third ; pronotum distinctly coarsely 

 punctate, strongly transversely impressed, the anterior lobe 

 thus well defined ; scutellum with a strong central ridge, 



