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New genera and species are described. Melanism seems to prevail in 
species belonging to the mountains of Nevada, while in Colorado and Idaho 
the insects present the richest and brightest colours. 
Walker, Francis. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera 
Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. 
Part V. pp. 1-202 (1872). 
Completes the Supencoj’fiia (containing the completion of the Coretdcs, and 
the LygceidcB, Anthocorida^, and Micr ophy sided) ^ and commences the Cm.i- 
ycyuB {Pyrrhocorid(B, including the Largidce). The title is scarcely correct, 
as the object of the work is to give a complete list of all the genera and 
species known to exist in the collections of European and American Ento- 
mologists. 
Captures near London : J. W. Douglas, Ent. M. M. viii. p. 289. 
F. Buchanan White, under the heading Notes on Scottish Ilemi- 
ptera,” refers to the habits of various well-known species. Scot. Nat. i. 
pp. 223-22G, 2G3-266. 
Corsica. T. A. Marshall, Ent. M. M. viii. p. 191, gives localities for, 
and a few general remarks concerning, species found by him in this island. 
Descriptions of new species &c. are added by J. Scott. 
Madagascar. In Aug. Vinson’s ‘ Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement 
de Radama IL’ (Paris: 18G5, roy. 8vo), Annexe D, pp. 19-22, is a list of 
191 species by C. Coquerel. 
Names of 'a few species occurring north of the United States of America 
are given by F. Walker : Canad. Ent. iv. p. 29. 
E. Colorado and N.E, New Mexico. In Hayden’s Geological Survey of 
Wyoming (1871) is a list of species collected by C, Thomas during the survey 
of 18G9. 
The figures and descriptions by Blasquez, in ‘ Naturaleza,’ of Lystra bom^ 
hycida and Velia (? Ilarpactor) agavis, mentioned in the ‘ Bericht ’ published 
in 1873, p. 114, have not been seen by the Recorder. 
On collecting and preserving, cf. Puton, Pet. Nouv. No. 65, p. 262. 
[Scutata.] 
Stal, QEfv. Ak. Forh. xxix. (1872) No. 3, pp. 31-40, revises the European 
genera of his family Pentatomidee, including therein as subfamilies the Scutel- 
lerina^Pentatominaj Asopina, Acanthosominaj Dinidorina^ Phyllocephalina. 
These groups will be here discussed as a whole, to avoid confusion with 
the references to other now recorded works of the author. The Scutellarina 
are composed of the divisions Elvisuraria (^Solenostcthium, Spin.), Odmto- 
tarsaria (Odontarstis, Lap., Ellipsocoris, Mayr, Phimodera, Germ.), Eurygas- 
traria (Psacasta, Germ., Eurygaster, Lap.), and Odmtoscelaria (E'ochrotusj 
Am. & S., OdontosceliSf Lap.); the Pentatomina of the Tarisaria {Tarisa, 
Am. & S.), Trigonosomaria (^Trigonosoma, Lap., Viljnanits, St., Crypsmus^ 
A. Dohrn), Graphosomaria (^Sternodontiis, Muls. & R., Ancyrosoma, Am. & 
S., TholagmuSy St., Grojdiosoma, Lap.), Podoparia {Podops, Lap., Scotino- 
