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ish Guiana, July 31, Aug. 3, 1911; Tukeit, British Guiana, July 21, 

 1911; Kangaruma, British Guiana, August 18, 1911 (Amer. Mus.) ; 

 Mexico, Parzudacki, 1840; French Guiana, E. Oberthur, 1899, Les 

 Eoches de Kouron, E. Le Moult, June, 1905; Para, Brazil, Eeiche; 

 Eiviere Lunier, Guiana, F. Geay, 1889 (Paris Mus.) ; Coco, Ecuador, 

 E. Heansch (Deutsches Entomologisches Institut) ; Para, Santarem 

 (British Mus.). 



NOTES ON PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED SPECIES 



1803. Fabricius, J. C. Systema Ehyngotorum. 



Cmiopus ohtectus^ Middle America, pp. 127-128; nymphs, 



type seen. 

 Tetyra impressa^ Middle America, pp. 141-142 ; see p. 16. 

 1819. Leach, W. E., [Dr. Leach's Notice of Eeptiles, Insects, etc.] 

 in Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, etc., by 

 T. E. Bowdich, Appendix No. 4. 

 Canopus pimetatus, Gaboon, p. 496. This is a Coptosomatid 

 placed by Lethierry and Severin in the genus Plcvtaspis. 

 It is figured by George Gray in Griffith, Edward, the 

 Animal Kingdom, vol. 15, 1832, p. 233, pi. 92, fig. 2. 

 1824. Dalman, J. W., Ephemerides entomologicae, 1. 



Oanopus ohtectus Fabricius, Brazil, pp. 34-36. Eedescrip- 

 tion : his specimen also was a nymph. 

 1832. Castelnau (i. e. DeLaporte, F, E.), Essai d'une Classification 

 Systematique de I'Ordre des Hemipteres (Hemipteres 

 Heteropteres, Latr.), Magasin de Zoologie, 2nd year, 88 

 pp., pis. 51-55. 

 Platycepkala metaUicai, n. gen. et. sp., Amerique du Nord 

 ( ? ) pp. 73-74, assigned to genus Cmiopws on p. 85, is a 

 Coptosomatid, and is not from North America. 

 Ganopus coccinelloides proposed on p. 85, and figured plate 

 55, fig. 5, for a specimen supposed^ from Brazil, also is a 

 Coptosomatid and not from North America. 

 The former is placed in Brachyplatys and the latter in 

 Plata^pis by Lethierry and Severin. 

 1834. GuERiN, F. E., Dictionnaire pittoresque d'Histoire naturelle I. 

 He is convinced that the synonymizing of Platycep?ial<i 

 with Ganopus by Castelnau is an error, and that the 

 species figured by himself in the Atlas to vol. 1 (pi. 72, 

 fig. 3), is not Gofnopus as there named but Platycephala. 

 The specific name is madagascm'iensis and it is placed in 

 Platmpis of the Coptosomatinae by Lethierry and Severin. 



