10 
[June, 
REMARKS OX SOME BRITISH H EMIPTERA - H E TE ROPTERA. 
BY DR. 0. M. REUTER. 
{Concluded from vol. xvi, page 175). 
In Xo, 157 (vol. xiv, p. 11) of this magazine, I began some 
remarks on British Ilemiptera- Heteroptera, which I will now finish. 
1 have only to make some corrections of my previous remarks, and to 
reply to several objections made b} r Mr. Douglas to different points of 
my observations. 
Pentatoma baccarum, E. M. M., xiv, p. 11. Mr. Douglas’s 
remarks concerning the nomenclature of this species are quite correct, 
and I am obliged for the elucidation he has given. However, I still 
think P. fuscispina, Boh., is a good species, and different from nigri- 
cornis , Fabr. 
Neides parallelus, L c., p. 12. Mr. Douglas admits this species 
to be only an imperfectly developed form of 2V. tipularius , Linn. ; but 
he says that it can hardly be termed brachypterous, “for it has fully 
developed elytra, the wings only being short:” still, I think that the 
term “ brachypterous ” may be employed in this case. The dimorphism 
is here of the same kind that Dr. Sahlberg has named “ crvpto- 
dimorphisin ” (Reut., Ann. Soc. ent. de Fr., ser. v, t. 5, p. 233), the 
brachypterous form having the elytra only a little shorter, or, at least, 
with narrower membrane, than the macropterous, but the wings always 
much shorter, and the pronotum posteriorly narrower and less convex. 
The membrane in N. parallelus is not “ fully developed,” being much 
narrower than in 2V. tipularius. 
Scolopostethu s ericetorum, 1. c., p. 13. Mr. Douglas thinks 
this species is not decoratus , Hahn. This opinion has, however, not 
been approved either by Dr. Futon or by Dr. Horvath ; and I also 
must continue to hold my concurrent opinion. The figure 71 of Hahn 
(Wanz. Ins., i, p. 139), can never be regarded as representing any 
other species than ericetorum. All the legs are black, the antennae 
black, with the exception only of the extreme base of the second, and 
the extreme apex of the first joint. These are just the characters of 
ericetorum , which also often has the first joint of the antennae quite 
black. The figure given by Hahn can nowise represent affinis , which 
has the first joint of the antennae quite red, or only toward the base 
black, and the second joint only in its apical half black, and the rest 
red, or sometimes almost entirely red. In affinis only the anterior legs 
