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THE first part of vol. ii. of this work was published in December, 1903, and was noticed in NATURE for February 25, 1904, and we have not had long to wait for the second part, completing the volume, the preface of which bears date April, 1904. The total number of species described in the second part is 511, bringing up the total number of species described in the first two volumes of the work to 1471. The second part of vol. ii. completes the great family Reduviidas (subfamilies Acanthaspidinæ to Nabidinæ), which is fam. 12 of Mr. Distant's arrangement. The volume also includes the families Saldidæ, Ceratocombidæ, Cimicidæ, and Capsidæ. This completes the land bugs, with the exception of the Anthocoridæ. These, with the two last families of the Gymnocerata (Hebridæ and Hydrometridæ), which are aquatic or subaquatic, are left over to be included with the Cryptocerata, all of which are aquatic, in the third volume, which will complete the work so far as the Heteroptera are concerned. The Homoptera will also be commenced in vol. iii.
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.
Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Edited by W. T. Blanford. Rhynchota, vol. ii., part ii. Heteroptera. By W. L. Distant. Pp. i–iv, xi–xvii, 343–503; figs. 168–319. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1904.) Price 10s.
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The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . Nature 70, 341 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070341a0
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