NOMENCLATORIAL NOTES ON THE RHYNCHOTA. 



ceous, with their apices and bases narrowly piceous, tarsi p 

 antennas moderately stout, first and second joints about e<juc- 

 length, fourth about as long as first and second united ; pronotum 

 prominently palely tricarinate, the lateral margins also carinate ; of 

 the three discal carinations, the outermost are only slightly curved, 

 and a little inwardly turned towards base, the interspaces rugulose aud 

 finely punctate ; elytra long, constricted behind the middle, rounded 

 at apes ; costal area with small, distinct, subhyaline, creamy-white 

 areolets, their dividing lines fuscous ; sntural area with an apical 

 cluster of creamy-white areolets. Long. 3^ to 4 millim. 



Hab. Honolulu, Oaku (J. Kotinsky). 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND NOMENCLATORIAL NOTES 

 ON THE RHYNCHOTA. 



By G. W. Kirkaldy. 



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In the 'Entomologist' for December (p. 274), Mr. Distant 

 comments upon certain hemipterous genera recently discussed 

 nomenclatorially by me. 



The review in ' Nature ' of July 5th (lxxiv. p. 220) was the 

 first intimation I received that the third volume of Mr. Distant's 

 work on Indian Hemiptera had been published. The sixth of 

 my bibliographical notes (Entom. 1906, pp. 247-9) was sent 

 away before that, and as, in the ' Entomologist ' for January, 

 1906 (p. 8), Mr. Distant had proposed names for certain pre- 

 occupied genera (in the Fulgoroidea) erected by Melichar in 1903, 

 I naturally concluded that the English author had overlooked 

 the preoccupation of Kirbya,'' about which I had, indeed, 

 written to Melichar in 1904. As it was, I wrote to the Editor, 

 hoping to cancel it, but was too late. My synonymic note on 

 QCoanaco was also despatched before Mr. Distant's correction was 

 published. These matters are, of course, of trivial importance, 

 and, indeed, inevitable where two or more workers are traversing 

 parts of the same ground. 



The discarding of Opinus (even if possible, which I do not 

 admit) would not render Sminthocoris valid, as Tapeinus would 

 still be available. ^ // r\_ 



I was quite aware of the existence of Penthicodes, which is a 

 strict synonym of Aphcena. It was not founded for a special 

 type, but expressly to replace the preoccupied: Penthicus, which 

 also was expressly erected to replace : Aphcena, which was sup- 

 posed to be^preoccupied by Aphanus. The types of Aphcena, 

 ^•& Penthicus, and Penthicodes are therefore one and the same, as 

 indicated already. 



