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PENTATOMiDiE. — Schiodte (I^Toyer Naturh. Tidsskr. iv. p. 335) has 
explained his views on the presence of the clasping pieces in the Penta- 
tomidce. In one, they are only present in the male, viz., — Stiretrus, Lap., 
also Asopiis, with abdominal bristles and dilated anterior tibiae {Oplomus, 
Spin.), Scutellera, Germ., Cceloglossa, Germ., Arctocoris, Germ. ; in the 
others, they are found in the males and the females, viz., — Psacasta, 
Germ., the proper Pachycoris, Burm., and the African forms of Halys, as 
H. serrata, F., and cincta^ Herr., Schatf. (which, as Schiodte remarks, are 
different). He has also (ibid. p. 279) illustrated the Fabrician species of 
Tetyra, contained in the royal collection at Copenhagen, by copious 
and exact Latin descriptions. The synonymy has been subjected to a 
thorough revision. This is an excellent work, from which I can here 
only give the cursory remark, that the author rejects the generic names 
Calliphara and Callidea, as interfering with Calliphora, Macquart, 
and Calleida, Dej., and substitutes for them Philia. Adam White 
(Transact. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 85) has felt the same necessity, from the 
similarity of the latter name to Callidium, and proposes to substitute 
for it Hahn’s name, Chrysocoris. 
Adam White has commenced his labours on the Hemiptera, collected 
by Cuming on the Philippines, by describing the new Pentatomidce 
(Gray, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 79) : Callidea sellata with the variety 
chromatica ; C. speciosa, dorsalis ; Plataspis xanthogramma, Mungo, 
Scipio. The treatise here breaks otf, and it is to be regretted, that the 
size of the three species of Plataspis is omitted, as their definition is not 
easy without it, and it would be as well to append it to the continuation 
of the work. He has also described a new species from Sierra Leone 
(Entom. p. 406), Prdbcenops dromedarius ; it is distinguished as a new 
genus, by the protracted head, the prothorax forming a projection 
anteriorly, which may be compared to that of the Notoxus monoceros, 
and a very broad scutellum, which covers the whole abdomen; the 
tibiae are without spines ; the tarsi seem two-jointed ; it is placed pro- 
visionally next Podops and Coptosoma. The same author has also 
described (Trans. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 84) several new Hemiptera, among 
which are the following; — Tectocoris Childreni, from Nepal, for which, 
and T. Drurcei, HardwicTcii, ajinis, &c., he founds a peculiar sub- 
genus, Pcecilochroma, distinguished from T. Banhsii and cyanipes, by 
having a shorter head, squarer in front, more compressed antennal 
joints ; Callidea {CallipJiara) hifasciata, from an island in the South 
Sea ; parentum, from Australia (?) ; Callidea examinans, Burch., from 
South Africa ; C.fascialis, from the East Indies ; C. Morgani, from Sierra 
Leone; Scutellera [Trigonosoma) interrupta, from Tenerilfe, differing 
from Sc. lineata, by having only three yellow longitudinal bands on the 
prothorax, the lateral of which are shortened anteriorly. He has founded 
a new genus, Coleotichus, for the New Holland Tetyra costata, F., 
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