468 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
II. Pronotum at base covering at least half the base of the endocoiium. 
A. Claws simple Dalletiq, g. n. 
B. Claws with a tooth about the middle of the inside. 
Onylia, g. n. 
Mulsant & Hey propose the name of Eysarcoris epistomalis for Pent, in- 
conspicuum (H.-Sch.), the latter having been given to another species by 
Barensprung. They also reject Fieber’s name Eysarcoris helferi, on the ground 
that we have also a Sciocoris helferi (Fieb.) and that they have laid down the 
rule that there must not be two identical specific names in the same fa- 
mily.” But in their classification Sciocoris helfei'i and Eysarcoris helferi be- 
long to distinct families ! and under any circumstances the adoption of such 
a rule will never be tolerated by naturalists. 
The Pentatomiens of Mulsant & Bey are divided by them into 3 
Branches ” (/. c, p. 112), namely : — the 
> AulacHraires, with a median ventral furrow ; the 
Strachiaires, with a strongly marked border to the anterior emargination of 
the pronotum, and the head margined ; and the 
Pentatomaires, vsdth the head and anterior emargination of the pronotum 
scarcely, if at all, bordered. 
The first of these groups includes only the genua Aulacetrus (Jihulatus^ 
Germ., figured pi. 2. fig. 12), which appears to be identical with Holcogaster 
(Meb.), the authors having adopted Amyot’s name for the species as generic. 
On what principle one of Amyot’s names, whose ^ M^thode Mononymique ’ 
is an avowed protest against the binominal nomenclature, should be allowed 
to take precedence of a regularly established generic name, it is difficult to see. 
The Strachiaires include the genua Slrachia {—Strachia and Eurydema^ 
auctt.) and a new genus. 
Between the Strachiaires and the Pentatomaires Mulsant and Key propose 
1. c. p. 166) to place their AsponcjopaireSy a proceeding in which few entomo- 
logists will be inclined to follow them, any more than in placing together in 
a single ‘^Blanche” 2 ^‘Kameaux” so dissimilar as iloQ Aspoiiyopates and 
PhyllocSphalates. They describe Aspongopus niger (Fieb.) and Schizops 
cegyptiaca (Lefebvre). 
Their Pentatomaires include 2 Rapieaux,” namely the Carpocorates and 
Pentatomates. The former have a black point on each cotyle, forming a 
longitudinal row on each side of the breast, and the edges of the abdomen 
banded with black j these characters are wanting in the second group. The 
Carpocorates include the genera Carpocoris (Kolen.), Peribalus, g. n., and 
Dryocoris (Amyot), the last preferred by the authors to Holcostethus (Fieb.) 
on the ground of the latter being so hard to pronounce ” 1 Carpoccn'is is 
divided into 4 subgenera, namely Carpocoris (sp. haccarutn), Codophila (sp. 
nigricorniSf Fab., melanocera, JA. & K., lunula, Fab., and 1 n. sp.), Anthetii- 
mia (sp. lynx, Fab.), and Eolycoris (sp. verbasci, Be G.). 
Of their Pentatomates, Mulsant & Key make 4 genera, namely Pentatoma, 
Palomena (g. n.), Brachynema (M. & K.), and Nezara (A. & S.), the last 
certainly more nearly allied to Bhapkigaster in the following group. Penta- ' 
torna macrorampha (Fieb.) = var. (M. & K.). 
The Acanthosomiens of Mulsant & Key include 2 Branches,” the Bliaphi- 
Spelt Daleria in Table j(p. 91). 
