van voi.lfnuoven's pentatomioae. 



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NOTE ILL 

 NOTES ON THE PENTATOMIDAE 



(Hemiplera Heteroptera) 



DESCRIBED BY D R . SNELLEN VAN VOLLENHOVEN 



BY 



Dr. H. SCHOUTEDEN. 



During a short stay made last year in Leyden, I was 

 enabled, through the courtesy of Mr. Ritsetna, to examine 

 the types of the Pentatomidae in the Leyden Museum, 

 described by the late Snellen van Vollenhoveu. Various 

 doubtful species were thus identified and observations of 

 previous authors controlled on the types. So a large part 

 of the identifications hereafter quoted, were already made 

 by C. Stal, who received from van Vollenhoven a number 

 of his types for examination. 



I thought it would be useful for hemipterists to have 

 for the van Vollenhoven's species a revision like the one Mr. 

 Distant is publishing on Walker's types in the British 

 Museum. Curiously enough, a number of the species described in 

 the year 1867 [published 1868? ')] by the dutch entomologist, 

 were described at the same time by Walker in the British 

 Museum's Catalogue : I think it very probable that the 

 names given by Walker take priority, though I could not 

 ascertain it. 



As to the enumeration of the species I thought it better 

 to place them in the order in which they are found in van 

 Vollenhoven's works; these latter are placed chronologically. 



1) See p. 38 at the top. 



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