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RHYNCHOTA. 
distribution of these specie^ is given, as regards the 4 divisions of Hun- 
gary and other European and neighbouring Asian and African coun- 
tries; and (pp. 10 & 11) a bibliographical account of authors who have 
written on the subject, including papers in Term . Kozl. and other Hun- 
garian unintelligible and inaccessible publications, by the author himself 
in 1870 and 1874, Otto Herman in 1871, J. Torsk and J. Privaldszky in 
1872, S. Mocsary in 1873, and E. Mery in 1874. In addition to the new 
species, the, following are figured :—Ly genus equestris, with detail, figs. 
1-4, 6 & 7, Heterogaster urticce^ fig. 6, Dimorphopterus spinolce, fig. 8, 
Blissus dorice, fig. 9, Icus angularis, Fieb., var. hungaricus, Horv., fig. 10, 
Plinthisus longipennis, fig. 11, Eremocoris icaunensis^ fig. 15, Nysius gra- 
cilis, Scott [S. E. Z. xxxi. 1870, p. 98 ; omitted from Zool. Rec. vii.], = 
thy mi, Wollf. 
Nysius puhescens, J. Sahib., = 'punctipennis, H. Sch. ; N. punctipennis, 
J. Sahib. & Reut., = Heterogaster ericcB, Boh., = N. helveticus, H. Sch. ; 
Lygeeus pilosulus, Thoms., = Stygnocoris pygmeeus, F. Sahib. : O. M. 
Reuter, Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 627. Plinthisus latus, Reut., ? 
Scholz, ? , forma macropt. ; id. 1. c. p. 547 
Nysius scotti, Saund., and ? helveticus, Frey-G-., and ohsoletus, Fieb., 
= brunneus, Fieb. ; E. Saunders, Ent. M. M. xi. p. 233. 
Drymus latus, D. & S., = pilicornis, Muls. ; Lamproplax sTiarpi, D. & 
S., = piceus, Flor; Stethotropis incana, Fieb., = Stygnocoris rusticus. 
Fall., forma macropt., and Fiober’s genus does not stand ; Ilypnophilus, 
D. & S., 1865, is renamed Hypnohius, on account of Ilypnophila, Foudr., 
1859 ; Pachymeriis, St. F., 1827, nec Thunberg, 1805, nec Latr., 1817, 
cannot be employed for Rhyparochromus, Curt. : J. W. Douglas & J. 
Scott, Ent. M. M. xi. pp. 184 & 185. 
Lygeeus melanocerus, Thoms., == Scolopostethus ericetdrum, Leth., dif- 
ferentiated from S. affinis, Schill., and recorded from England ; Lygeeus 
crraticus, P., ex. typ., = Eremocoris podagricus, F. ; L. podagricus and 
decoratus, Thoms., Leth., = Scolopostethus adjunctus, D. & S. ; S. crassi- 
cornis, D. & S., = Notochilus limbatus, Fieb., var.; Rhyparochromus 
suftaZ/co/a, Thoms., from England ; R. chiragra, F., var. n. nigricornis, 
(p. 267) ; Peritrechus puncticeps, Thoms., and nubilus. Fall., dilfer- 
entiated, and both recorded from England : J. W. Douglas, Z. c. pp. 
263-267. 
Trapezonotus distinguendus, Flor. Notes on the characters and syno- 
nymy of this and 3 allied forms ; id. op. cit. xii. p. 136. 
Micropus leucopterus. Say, ‘‘ the chinch bug.’^ A full account of its 
economy, parasites, and ravages ; in one year it has done damage to 
wheat, corn, and oats, to the extent of 19,000,000 dollars in Missouri 
alone, from Government returns. C. V. Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. vii. pp. 19- 
71, figs. 1-11. 
Pezocoris, g. n., Jakowleff, Bull. Mosc. xlix. 2, p. 158. Allied to 
Trapezonotus. For P. villosus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 160, pi. i. fig. 3, Sarepta. 
Jakowleffia, g. n., A. Puton, Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 512. Oxycareni : 
approaching Cymus in its head, pronotum, and scutellum, and somewhat 
near Macropterna in the structure of the membrane, but neither of these 
