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which approximates Tetyra, Burm. {Eurygaster, Lap.), and Pachycoris, 
and its chief characteristic appears to be, that the thoracic groove 
for the proboscis, reaching to the hinder legs, gradually dilates pos- 
teriorly, so that its walls externally pass round the trochanter. 
Another new genus, Coriplatus, White (ibid. p. 90, t. 7, f. 3), with one 
new species, C. depressus, from Demerara, is allied to Sciocoris, Dinidor, 
&c. It has a long scutellum, contracted in the middle, reaching to the 
end of the abdomen, and lobed lateral margins of the prothorax. He 
has also described (ibid.) Dryptocephalus (?) Pertyi, from Brazil, to 
which the sub-generic name, Cephaloplatus, has been given, as it differs 
from the others by the two-lobed head and much larger eyes ; jElia (?) 
gracilis, from Congo, with the long proboscis of an Atelocera, but with 
the second antennal joint cylindrical and not compressed; jElia [Mega- 
rhyncJms, Lap.) ccenosa, from Gambia. 
The reporter (Arch. 1842, i. p. 275) has noticed the following new 
species from Van Diemen’s Land: — Gydnus australis, sepulchralis ; 
Asopus nummularis ; Cimex incultus ; Atelocerus lahidus, grandicor- 
nis ; Rhynchocoris ligata. 
Schiodte (Kroyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. iv. p. 237) has subjected the 
genus Cephaloctenus, Duf., to a very close examination ; ocelli want- 
ing; composite eyes present, but small and divided, one part on the 
upper, another on the under side. C. histeroides, Duf., has been al- 
ready described by Fabricius as Gydnus scarahccoides ; this and a new 
species from Travancore, in India, G. mdolonthoides, are carefully 
described. 
Germar (Ent. Zeit. p. 68) has more correctly distinguished uElia 
(Pentatoma) acuminata, F., and Klugii, Hahn, and drawn attention to 
a third species, nearly allied to the first, jE. pollens, Kiist., which seems 
abundant in the north, and may be the real Gim. acuminatus, L. 
CoREiD^. — Germar (Faun. Ins. Eur. 1. 11) has figured an insect from 
Turkey, under the name of Aradus obscurus, which, however, belongs 
to this family, and is most nearly allied to Pseudophl. lobatus, Herr. 
Schaff. ; he describes the proboscis as three-jointed, and the ocelli as 
wanting, on which its generic name is grounded ; in our specimens, I 
find four joints to the proboscis, and ocelli on the longitudinal eleva- 
tions of the forehead directed laterally, and therefore easily overlooked, 
unless viewed from the side. He has also figured (ibid. t. 12) Phyllo- 
morphus erinaceus, from Turkey ; which however had been made known 
(1841), under the same name, by Herr. Schaffer. A new species of 
the same genus has been pointed out by Westwood (Arcan. Ent. i. Add. 
and Corr.), Ph. pellicula, from tropical Africa. 
Adam White (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii. p. 92) has described several 
new species : Spartocerus (?) erythromelas from Brazil (it is Sp. bicolor, 
Herr. Schaff.) ; Sp. dorsalis, from Mexico ; and Gerbus (Derepteryx) 
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