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FAMILY LEUCIFEKIDAE. 



1852. Sergestidae, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. 13, pp. 601, 608 (in 



Penaeidea). 

 1852. Luciferidae, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. 13, figs. 636, 639, 668 



(in Mysidea). 



1888. Sergestidae, Bate, Eep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 24, pp. 219, 345 



(sub-family Sergestinae, p. 345, Luciferinae, 

 p. 443). 



1896. ,, Hansen, Pr. Zool. Soc. London, p. 937. 



1905. ,, Faxon, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, vol. 18, 



p. 208. 

 1914. ,, Illig, Deutsche Siidpolar-Exp., vol. 15 (Zool. 7) 



p. 349. 

 1914. Leuciferidae, Stebbing, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Edinb., vol. 5, pt. 2, 



p. 284. 



If the right of primogeniture is admitted, the genus Lucifer 

 is entitled to give its name to the family, having been born a 

 year sooner than the rival claimant Sergestes. The genus 

 itself, having been properly instituted, does not lose its privi- 

 lege, although the name originally given to it was preoccupied, 

 and therefore yields to another. 



GEN. LEUCIFER, Milne-Edwards. 



1829. Lucifer, Vaughan Thompson, Zoological Researches, vol. 1, 



pt. 1, mem. 3, p. 68 (not Lucifer), Linn., Amoen. 

 Acad., vol. 6, p. 70, 1760, Sherborn, nor Lucifer, 

 Lesson, Aves, ? 1829. 



1831. Latreille, Cours d'Entomologie, p. 386. 



1837. Leucifer, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. 2, p. 467 (in 

 Tribu des Leuciferiens). 



1852. Lucifer, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. 13, pp. 639, 668. 



1880. Leucifer, Boas, Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., Ser. 6, vol. 1, pp. 37, 165. 



1888. Lucifer, Bate, Eep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 24, pp. 443-469. 



1896. Leucifer, Hansen, Pr. Zool. Soc. London, p. 937. 



1903. Lucifer, Ortmann, Ergebn. Plankton Exp., vol. 2, G. b.,pp. 71, 



108. 



1904. Leucifer, Caiman, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, vol. 13, p. 151. 



1905. Lucifer, Faxon, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, vol. 18, 



p. 208. 

 Vaughan Thompson enlarges on the characters of the genus 



