Bl6 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



More 01" less punctured : clothed with pallid pubescence. Head 

 smooth, polished, declivous, longer than high ; width of vertex with 

 eyes equal to twice the length of the first antennal segment. Vertex 

 strongly and entirely margmate at base. Eves oblique. Clypeus not 

 very prominent. Pronotum at base nearly twice as wide as head, 

 collar short, not as wide as the vertical margination. Pronotal 

 callosities subconfluent, behind these the pronotum is punctulate ; 

 lateral margins somewhat rounded, not reflexed. Lateral margins of 

 elytra ampliate, wider near the apex than the cuneus, fracture of the 

 latter deeply marked ; cuneus nearly isosceles, or a trifle wider than 

 long. Posterior femora not strongly incrassate, reaching a little 

 beyond apex of abdomen, tibife long and slender. Third segment of 

 posterior tarsi longer than either first or second, second longer than 

 first. 



S. RAVANA, Sp. nOV. 



Apex of head, two basal antennal segments, base of pronotum, 

 scutellum, elytra, femora and base of tibire, underneath, black or 

 brownish black. Remainder of head and pronotum reddish testaceous. 

 Legs pallid fuscous. Stink-orifices pallid. Membrane fumate. Abdo- 

 men beneath smooth and polished. Second segment of antennae 

 three times as long as first, apical two-thirds incrassate a little, two 

 and one-third times as long as the slender third segment. Rostrum 

 reaching posterior coxas. 5 , Long. 5 mill. 



Hab. BiRMA, Chan Yoma (ex coll. Montandon). 



Fam. Lyg^id.^ (= Coreid^, olim). 

 AcANTHOMiA TOMENTicoLLis (Stal, sub. Clavigvalla, 1855) 

 ^= tomentosicollis (Stal, 1865). 



^ -Fam. Tetigoniid^. 



Harmonides, n. n. for i^armida, Fairm., ncc Heyd., 1825 

 (Mollusca). 

 O Agondas, n. n. (or Janthe, Stal, 7iec Marseul, 1865 (Coleoptera). 



THE PUBLICATION-DATE OF THE RHYNCHOTAL PART 

 OF THE 'VOYAGE OP THE COQUILLE.' 



By G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. ^ 



When preparing the first part of my work " On the Nomen- 

 clature of the Genera of the Rhynchota " (Entom. 1900, p. 25 

 et seq.), I was able to examine only a separate copy of the Khyn- 

 chotal portion of Duperrey's ' Voyage autour du monde sur la 

 Coquille.' This was dated 1830, and as the work was cited by 

 Laporte in 1832, and Boisduval in 1835, I did not question its 

 correctness. Lately, however, I have been able to examine the 

 whole work, and find that I was led into grievous error. The title- 

 page of the zoological part, vol. ii. pt. 2, division 1, bears the date 



