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ZOOLOGICAL LITEllATUHE. 
(Fab.). Halys •plana (Fab.) belongs to Dymantis (StSl) and Naucoris 
cursitans (Fab.) to Sciocoris = S. tefn'eus (Fieb.), according to Stal (/. c. 
p. 21). 
MmestheuSj g. n., StSl, Q5fvers. Vet.-Akad. Fork. 18G7, p. 504. Type 
Scioc. nercivus (Dali). 
Eribotes, g. n., StSl, 1 . c. p. 504. Type Scioc. australis (Dali). 
Sciocoris cambridyeii, sp. n., Douglas & Scott, Ent. M. Mag. v. p. 30, plains 
of Jordan. 
^dmis similisj sp. n., Ilaglund, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1868, p. 154, Eangoon j 
.Ei. notatuSf sp. n,, Ilagl. ibid., Manilla j JE. rugosus, sp. n., Hagl ibid., Java. 
Halydides. 
Stal (ffifvers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1867, pp. 506-510) tabulates the Aus- 
tralian and Asiatic genera of this group, and refers Platycoris umbrosus to 
his genus Niarius, and Poecilotoma spinosa to Omyta (Spin.). 
Stal also (/. c. pp. 523-525) tabulates the American genera of this group, 
and states that Schccffei'ellalitigiosa (Spin.)= Ochlerus incisus (H.-Sch.). 
StIl (Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Haiidl vii. pp. 18-20) refers Edessa 
sepulcralis, guttato-pimctataj tripteraj and mixta (Fab.) to Antiteuchus ) with 
the first of these species A. luctuosus (StM) is identical, with the second A. 
griseus (Dali), and with the third Cataulax ajncalis (Erichs.). Halys vario- 
losa (Fab.) is distinct from Linn^’s species, which = ^. cariosus (Erichs.), 
and identical with Din. maculatus (Lap.). 
Stal also (I c. pp. 22-23) identifies the following Fabrician species : — 
xElia hastata=iDiploxys j AH. lanceolata=. Dichelocephala ) Halys serrata = 
Atelocera'j H. oculata and clavata^Dalpada\ Edessa guttata— Erthesina\ 
Cimex reticularis belongs to Macropygium and = subsulcatus (Am. 
& Serv.) ; C. marginatus is an Ochlerus and= O. cinctus (Spin.), C. Jiamcinctus 
(Il.-Sch.), and Menipha brunnea (Am. & Serv.) ; H. depressa is a Chlot'ocoris ; 
and C. ccelebs belongs to Oncocoris (Mayr). 
A species of Halys is said by W. J. INDLaughlin to destroy the potato- 
bug ” in the United States. Amer. Natural, ii. p. 330. 
Theseus, g. n., StSl, CEfvers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1867, p. 508. Type Poecilo- 
metis modestus (Stal). 
Pulycarmes, g. n., Stal, 1 . c. p. 509. Type Acanthidium punctatissimum 
(Montr.). 
Mmcus, g. n., StM, 1. c. p. 524. Type Ochlerus obscurus (Dali). 
Melanodermus, g. n., StSl, 1 . c. p. 524. Sp. Ochlerus circummaculatus and 
tartarem (St&l). 
Lincus, g. 11 ., StSl, 1 . c. p. 524. Typo Ochlerus rufospilotus (VVestw.). 
Chloropepla, g. n., St®l, 1 . c. p. 525. Type Loxa vigens (Stfll). 
Antiteuchus pallescens, sp. n., StM, Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. vii. 
p. 18, note. South America. 
Pelidnocoris stalii, sp. n., Haglund, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1868, p. 150, Mexico. 
Tibraca fusca, sp. n., Haglund, 1 . c. p. 151, Brazil? 
Gilippus hostilis, sp.n., Haglund, /. c. p. 153, Melbourne. 
Pentatomides. 
Stal (CEfvers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1867, pp. 510-522) tabulates the Asiatic 
and Australian genera of this, group. He refers to Stollia (Ellenr.) Cimex 
