- 138 ] Nepidae 461 



Herrich-Schaeffer, Wanz. Ins., viii, p. 19, 1848. 

 Spinola, Tavola Sinot., p. 48, 1850. 

 Fieber, Genera Hydroc., p. 23, 1851. 

 Flor, Khyn. Livl., i, p. 756, 1860. 

 Fieber, Europ. Hemip., pp. 31, 101, 1860. 

 Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xviii, p. 202, 1861. 

 Stal, Hemip. Afr., iii, p. 185, 1865. 

 Douglas and Scott, Brit. Hemip., p. 583, 1865. 

 Montandon, Bui. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xii, p. 107, 1903. 

 Kirkaldy and Bueno, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., x, p. 202, 1908. 

 iHepa Geoffrey, Hist. Abreg. des Ins., i, p. 479, 1762. 

 Fourcroy, Ent. Paris., p. 221, 1785. 



1379. Nepa apiculata Uhl. 



Uhler in Harris, Treat. Ins. Inj. Veg., edn. 3, p. 12, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1862. 

 Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, p. 440, 1878. 

 Uhler, Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 253, 1884. 



Montandon, Bui. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, viii, p. 511, 1898; xii, p. 101, 1903. 

 Bueno, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xiii, p. 44, 1905. 

 Bueno, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xviii, p. 180, 1910. 

 Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., edn. 3, p. 157, 1910. 

 Severin, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xix, p. 99, 1911. 

 Severin, Behavior Monographs, i, No. 3, 1911 (death feigning). 



^cinerea Ferrari, Ann. k. k. Nat. Hofm. Wien, iii, p. 191, 1888 (part). 



Localities: Quebec, Ont., Mass., E. I., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Md., 

 D. C., Ga., Ohio, Mich., 111. (Mexico.) 



Genus Curicta Stal 

 Haplotype scorpio Stal 



Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xviii, pp. 202, 203, 1861. 

 Stal, Hemip. Afr., iii, p. 185, 1865. 

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Am., Heter., ii, p. 352, 1901. 

 Montandon, Bui. Soc. Sci. Buearest, xii, p. 97, 1903. 

 Kirkaldy, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxxii, p. 154, 1906. 

 Kirkaldy and Bueno, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., x, p. 202, 1908. 



Helotenthes Berg, Hemip. Argent., p. 194, 1879 (type 'bonaerensis Berg). 

 Nepoidea Montandon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xxxix, p. 476, 1895 (type 



[volxemi Montd.). 

 1380. Curicta howardi Montd. 



Montandon, Bui. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xviii, p. 181, 1910. 

 Locality: Texas. 



Genus Ranatra Fabr. 

 Logotype linearis (Linn.) 



Fabricius, Nova Ins., Genera in Skrift. Nat. Selskabet, i, p. 227, 1790. 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst., iv, p. 64, 1794. 



Latreille, Precis, p. 87, 1797. 



Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., iii, p. 252, 1802 (names linearis as example). 



Walckenaer, Fauna Paris., ii, p. 335, 1802 (linearis only species). 



Fabricius, Syst. Khyn., p. 108, 1803. 



Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., xii, p. 280, 1804 (gives linearis as example). 



Latreille, Genera Crust. Ins., iii, p. 148, 1907 (linearis only species). 



