ON SOME RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 15 



{b) Coleoticlms, A. "White, I. c. (misquoted by Lethierry & 

 Severin, and in Schouteden's Monographs). 



Fam. CoRixiD^. 

 Corixa contortuplicata, n. n. for C. irrorata, Fieber, 1851 (or 

 1852), not H.-S. 1850. 



ON SOME RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



By W. L. Distant. I ^ O J .'._ 



In the last issue of the ' Entomologist ' (p. 291), Mr. Cockerell 

 writes that the species which I call Herrera 7narginella (Cat. 

 Cicadidse, p. 121) is based on Cicada marginella, Walk, but is not 

 the Cicada marginella, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 96, and proposes 

 that the species should be known by the name of its synonym, 

 Herrera ancilla, Stal. It is not often that Mr. Cockerell makes'' 

 a slip. ^ 



1. The species described by Fabricius (Syst. Rhyng. p. 96) is- 

 ^ Cercopis marginella {costalis) , not Cicada marginella. This is a. 



well-known member of the TettigoniellidsG (Jassidre). 



2. Walker neither supposed nor intended his species to repre- 

 sent that of Fabricius, which he rightly recorded in its proper 

 place (List Hom. Suppl. p. 224(1858)). 



5. Fabricius did describe i^"^ Cicada marginella (Mant. Ins. ii. 

 p. 271), but not where Mr. Cockerell quotes. This is also a well- 

 known species of Tettigoniellidae, and recognized and recorded as 

 such (1854) before Walker described his species (1858). The 

 synonymy therefore now stands : — 



Herrera marginella. 

 ^ Cicada marginella, Walk., List Hom. Suppl. p. 21 (1858). 

 ^ Carineta ancilla, Stul, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxv. p. 57 (1864). 

 oCarineta marginella, Dist., Biol. Centr.-Amer. Rhynch. Hom. 

 i. p. 21, t. ii. f. i6, a,h (1883). 



^^Herrera marginella, Dist., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xv. p. 486 

 (1905). 

 ^Herrera ancilla, Cockerell, Entom. 1907, p. 291. 



It seems a pity that Mr. Kirkaldy does not make himself 

 familiar with his subject before writing as a critic thereon. In 

 his note on the food-plants of some species of Oriental Rhynchota 

 (1907, p. 282) he again breaks forth in strictural comment. He 

 writes Leptocoris augur (= Serinetha, Dist.). Now, if Mr. Kirk- 

 aldy likes to use Leptocoris for Serinetha, no one objects ; he has 

 a right to write as he prefers, and no one is compelled to follow 

 him. But it is inexact to write ^'Serinetha,'" Dist. ; he gives m 



