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PSYCHE [June
ON SOME UNRECORDED GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES. BY A. N. CAUDELL, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Intentionally or otherwise a large number of generic names proposed by Gistel in his Mysteries of the European Insect-world1 have never been recorded in any of our nomenclatures or indices. Most of the genera here proposed are not described but have one or more described species cited under them, which gives them a valid standing. Duplication of these names is certain, sooner or later, to result in confu- sion and to prevent, so far as possible, such duplication some bibliographer, preferably a coleopterist, should go over the work and list such new or emended generic names as seem eligible for recording. All the valid generic names used by Gistel in this work as new or emendations, nearly 250 in number, are coleopterous except Cepha- Iwmantis and Chrsomantis, both Orthopterous. These two genera are established on page 427 and are from Egypt. Chersomantis bears no generic description but the single included species, picta, is briefly defined as "antennis crassis; alis inferi- oribus basi adustis." Cephahantis is described at some length and under it are listed two new species, the first, rustics,, defined as "3" lang; hellbraun" and the second, gracilis, defined as "Muschelbraun" and doubtfully referred to as a variety of the first. A third species, viridipennis, is included but, being undescribed except as characterized by the specific name itself, I consider it a nomen nudum. These two genera of Orthoptera are certainly well established and should be recorded. Besides Cephalomantis and Chersomantis and their included species there are several other species of Orthoptera, as well as a number of species of other orders, here defined for the first time.
In Orthoptera the following new species are not found in Kirby's recent Uni- versal Catalogue?
Blatta pellucida p. 427. Mantis cinerea p. 427. 27 sphaerica
427. " dilaticollis 427.
' pallida 427. ' maculipennis 427.
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elongata
427. Forficula bicolor 427.
' lata 427. ' apicalis 428.
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hemialata
427. Truxalis pharaonica 428.
Acrydium scutellatum 427. Gryllus reticulatus 428. 9,
adumbratum 427. " assirnilis 428.
Tettix scabrata
427. " nigrofasciatus 428-
Locusta oculata
427. Gryllotalpa gracilis 428.
^'Die Mysterien der europaischen Insectenwelt." Prof. Dr. Johannes Gistel. Kempten. 1856. 12m0, pp. 12 and 532.
'"A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera." by W. F. Kirby. London, Svo. vol. i.1904; vol. i. 1905; vol. iii. not yet published.
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