THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATLFRAL HISTORY, [EIGHTH SERIES.] No. 16. APRIL 1909. XhU.—Rhi/nchofnl Notes.—XLVll. By W. L. DISTANT. Heteroptera. Fam. Lygaeidge. Oriental Genera and Species. The following newly proposed genera and a number of the new species here described will be figured in the Appendix to the Rhjnchota in the ' Fauna of British India.' Thej all pertain to the family Lygaeidge as hitherto understood; but now a new departure has been advocated, and that well-known family name is by some writers threatened with suppression. As 1 retain the name used by all previous and nearly all recent entomologists, some remarks are neces-sary, especially as Bergroth, in patronising the change, has written : — " As eminent hemipterists have already decided to give up the family name Lygaeidai in the hitherto recogtiized sense, I provisionally accept with Breddin the name Mj'odo-chidas after the oldest genus of the family (^Ali/odocha, Latr.) " (Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1908, p, 589). Breddin, however, is not the " eminent hemipterist " who originally advocated this idea, and Bergroth ought to have given the credit to Kirkaldy, who, however, has not been consistent with himself on the question, as he has subsequently proposed Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. iii. 22
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