xiii.D, 2 Bergroth: Philippine Heteroptera, I 57 



circiter duplo longius remotis," but the distance between the 

 ocelli was probably somewhat exaggerated, as Stal in his original 

 description of the type says that the ocelli are "inter se quam 

 ab oculis paullo longius remoti." At any rate none of the 

 species of Aethalotus described since have the ocelli so widely 

 separated as in Stal's generic diagnosis they are said to be in 

 the typical species. Astacops (Abgarus^) iypica Dist. is said 

 to have the ocelli "between the eyes and much nearer to their 

 insertion than to each other," according to which character it 

 would be an Aethalotus, but from the figure it is clear that the 

 ocelli are much more separated from the eyes than from each 

 other and that Distant has regarded the peduncle bearing the 

 eye as belonging to the eye itself! It is apparently owing to 

 the same mistake that he placed his species borneensis in 

 Aethalotus, although the ocelli, as the figure shows, are more 

 remote from the eyes than from each other. Aethalotus could 

 be separated from Astacops (inclusive of Scopiastes) solely by 

 the distance between the ocelli being greater than that between 

 them and the eyes, but the species in which these distances are 

 equal would in any case be intermediate forms. The distance 

 between the ocelli as compared with that between them and the 

 eyes generally depends on the length of the ocular peduncle in 

 the different species and is a purely specific character. Owing 

 to the manifest connecting links, these three "genera" must, 

 in my opinion, be united. By their fusion A. nigripes Dist. 

 becomes a preoccupied name; I propose for this species the 

 name A. melampns. 



Aspilocoryphus mendicus Fabr. 



Luzon, Benguet, Baguio. 



This and the following species were hitherto known only from 

 India. 



Lygaeosoma bipimctata Dall. 



Luzon, Benguet, Baguio. 



On this and two other species Reuter founded the geHus 

 Melanotelus, but there are no reliable characters separating it 

 from Lygaeosoma. In many genera of this subfamily the pos- 

 terior margin of the metapleura is more or less oblique and 



° The genus Abgarus Dist. was founded on a fictitious character, brought 

 on by an injury inflicted on the type, the head having been forced out of 

 its natural position so that the neck only touches the upper apical margin 

 of the pro thorax; this is quite obvious from the profile-figure of the 

 specimen. 



