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THIS useful list of Palasarctic Hemiptera and Homoptera is practically a fifth edition of Dr. Puton's “Catalogue des Hemipteres de la Faune Palearctique,” the fourth edition of which was published in 1899. The failing health and subsequent blindness of the French author prevented him from continuing the study of these insects, and M. Oshanin, therefore, has done good service by bringing the catalogue up to date. He takes a wider view of the Palæarctic region than Puton, including Wallace's Mandchurian sub-region, that is, Japan and the greater part of China. Altogether, 5476 species are enumerated under fifty-five families and 1005 genera, and the classification adopted is that of O. M. Reuter. The year of publication of each of the genera and species, with the habitat, is given, as was done by Puton, and an alphabetical list of the species and varieties is to be found on pp. 131–177. The recently published “Verzeichnis der palaearktischen Hemipteren mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Verteilung im russischen Reiche,” by the same author, gives a full reference to the works in which the species were described.
Katalog der pal arktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera—Auchenorhyncha und Psylloideae).
B. Oshanin. Pp. xvi + 187. (Berlin: Friendl nder und Sohn.) Price 12 marks.
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Katalog der pal arktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera—Auchenorhyncha und Psylloideae) . Nature 90, 513 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090513a0
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