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years (10). Machhardt briefly notes fifteen Swedish Hetero- 

 ptera, most of which occur also in Britain ; information on 

 food-plants and localities is afforded (17). 



Eoyer has shown (23) that there is some confusion in the 

 names given to three of the commoner European Tomaspis, the 

 name "Sanguinolenta, Linn6 " being later than l ^sanguinolenta, 

 Scopoli." The correct synonymy he gives as follows : — 



(1) sanguinolenta, Scopoli, 1763 = mactata, Germ., 1821 = 

 (listing uenda, Kirschb., 1868, &c. 



*-(2) sanguinea, Geoffroy, 1785 = vulnerata, Germar, 1821, &c. 



(3) intermedia, Kirschbaum, 1868 —"obliterate/,, Kirschb., 

 1868 = sanguinolenta, Linne (pt.), 1766. 



V' Sanguinea,'" however, was preoccupied in \ Cicada before 

 1763, so that we can still call the British species iTomaspis 

 vulnerata. 



The recent addition (21) to the French hemipterous fauna of 

 Elasmostethus minor, a Cimicid up till recently confused with 

 E. interstinctus (Linn.),* makes it possible that the former is to 

 be found in the British Isles. The food-plant is, it is true, an 

 introduced plant, now, however, thoroughly established, and the 

 bug should be looked for either on this or on its congener, the 

 honeysuckle. The differences between the two forms may be 

 stated as follows : — 



INTERSTINCTUS. 



$ . Second genital 

 segment. 



5 . Genital seg- 

 ment. 



Angle formed by the 

 meeting of this and of 

 the last tergite. 



Food-plants. 



With a small black 

 spine at the side pos- 

 teriorly. 



Truncate apically in 

 the middle. 



Obtuse. 



Betula alba, Salix, 

 Populus. 



Not spiuose. 



A little emarginate 

 apically in the middle. 



Acute. 



Lonicera xylosteum. 



Jeannel records (12) a Carabus with the third segment of the 

 right antenna kind. This segment is flattened and dilated, 

 wider apically than basally, giving rise to three segments at its 

 apex, the two supplementary branches each being composed of 



:;: E. interstinctus (Linn.) = Acanthosoma dentatum of Saunders's 

 Hem. Het. Brit., and must not be confounded with A. (E.) interstinctum of 

 the same work, which = griseus (Linn.). 



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