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ON SOME LYRA MORPH A - SPECIES. 



appear, however, that he has seen the types, nor does he 

 mention the species as present in the Stockholm Museum 

 or in Signoret's collection. 



From this time this synonymy was thoroughly admitted, 

 so in the Lethierry and Severin Catalogue. 



In 1900 Distant examined the types of Westwood's des- 

 criptions in the Hope Catalogue and enumerated the species 

 in their proper systematic position. We find in his list 

 L. pallida indicated, as Stal did, as a synonym of 

 L. rosea '). 



In 1900 Horvath published a valuable monograph of the 

 genus Lyramorpha 2 ), and as he did not see the types of 

 Westwood, he admitted also the synonymy given by Stal 

 and by Distant. Thus he describes only one species with 

 four-jointed antennas, viz. L. rosea, with L: pallida quoted 

 as a synonym. 



Looking through, last year, the Pentatoinida) in the 

 collection of the Leyden Museum, I found there, to my 

 great surprise, a specimen of both L. rosea and L. pallida, 

 marked by the late Snellen van Vollenhoven, as having 

 been received from Westwood himself. 



At first sight the species looked different, and as the 

 specimens were, fortunately enough, both of the male sex, 

 an examination of the genital segment proved they were 

 quite distinct! 



The specimens in the Leyden Museum agree very 

 good with the descriptions reproduced here above, and I 

 consider them to be types, or, if preferred so, cotypes of 

 Westwood. 



The antennas of both specimens are partially broken 

 off, but they were certainly, as expressly mentioned by 

 Westwood, four-jointed. Thus there are two species to be 

 included in the genus Lyramorpha s. str., which can 



1) Proc. Zool. Soc. London for the year 1900, p. S23. 



2) Terra e'szetrajzi Fuzetek, Vol. XXIII, p. 341. 



r*ïotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



