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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Lampropharaj g. n., Stal, 1. c. p. 34. Allied to Calliphara (Sial), but 
with the tibiae cylindrical. Type Callidea bifasciata (White). Berl. ent. 
Zeits. i. p. 155. 
CosmocoriSf g. n., StSl, 1. c. p. 34. Allied to Callidea {Chrysocoris) ; 
scutellum transversely strongly elevated at base. Sp. Call, sellata (White), 
chromatica (White), excavata (Gii^r.) = yihbosa (Voll.), quadrimaculata 
(Voll), and scJdegelii (Voll.). B. e. Z. 18G6, p. 156. 
Lamprocoris, g. n., StSl, 1. c. p. 34. Allied to Callidea ( Chrysocoris) ; 
tibiae cylindrical; joint 3 of antennae only twice as long as 2. Type Callidea 
lateralis (Gu^r.). B. e. Z. 1866, p. 156. 
Graptophara^ g. n., StSl, 1. c. p. 34. Allied to preceding, but joint 2 of 
antennae scarcely shorter than 3. Type Callidea reynaudii (Gu^r.). B. e. Z. 
1866, p. 164. 
Plataspides, 
Brachyijlatys pallipes (Fo\i.')=.Cimex testudo nigra (De G.). StSl, Hem. 
Afr. iv. p. 252. 
OncylaspiSf g. n., StSl, Hem. Afr. i. p. 2. Allied to Brachyplatys ; eyes 
oblique, deeply immersed ; thorax deeply rotundato-sinuate in front, with its 
anterior angles prominent. Type* P/a^as/>^s mjiceps (Dali.), see B. e. Z. 1866, 
p. 151. 
Asopides, 
Dorycoris Qilinyv) = Claudia (Still), see Mayr, Beise der Novara, Zool. ii. 
Hem. ii. p. 33, where a question of priority is raised which applies to several 
of Mayr’s genera. The first volume of Stll’s ^ Hemiptera Africana ’ bears 
date 1864, but was not published, according to Mayr, until the spring of 
1865, whilst Mayr’s descriptions appeared within the year 1864 ; nevertheless 
he has in all cases suppressed liis own names. 
Allocotus rogmhoferi (Mayr) is figured by Mayr, I, c. tab. 1. fig. 2. 
Anna abbreviata, sp. n., Motschulslry, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix. 1. p. 187, 
Japan. 
Cydnides. 
The tables given by Mulsant & Bey (Punaises de France, 
Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xiii.) of the Branches, Bameaux,^^ 
and genera into which they divide this group, may be abridged 
and combined as follows : — 
I. Femora witli flexible or spiniform hairs near their posterior edge ; pro- 
sternum to coxiB shorter than head ; mesosternum with hairs. 
A. Ocelli indistinct ; eyes scarcely if at all visible above. 
Oephalocteaiiies. 
1. Membrane of elytra short, not veined .... (C^haloct^ates.) 
Genus Cephalocteus (Duf.). 
2. Membrane long, veined (Amblyottates.) 
Genus Amblyottus (A. & S.). 
B. Ocelli distinct ; eyes very apparent Cydnaires. 
1. Scutellum more than half as long as the abdomen. 
{Cydnates.') 
