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Zoological Miscellany, I, 123, pi. liv, described the new species 

 Lupa forceps. That the former should take precedence is proved 

 by the following, which appears in Leach's article 'Annulosa ' 

 in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Supplement, vol. 1, 1816 : " This 

 genus was instituted by Dr. Leach in the Edinburgh Encyclo-' 

 psedia, and has since been given with amended characters in the 

 Zoological Miscellany and in the eleventh volume of the Trans 

 actions of the Linn can Society." Lupa is a synonym of Portunus 

 as restricted by Latreille, 1810 (see page 160). Those who do not 

 admit his restriction must use the name Lupa in place of Nep- 

 tunus de Haan, 1833. Lupella, nov., is proposed for Lupa forceps 

 Leach, or the genus Lupa of de Haan, 1833. Portunus as used 

 by Leach, 1814, and by succeeding writers may be called Liocar- 

 cinus, a name proposed by Stimpson, 1871, for a perhaps unnec 

 essary division of that genus. 



Leptopodia was established by Leach, Edinburgh Encyclopse- 

 dia, Appendix, 431, 1814, for two species, Maia phalangium (Pen 

 nant, 1777) Leach [= Cancer rostratus Linnaeus, 1761 = Inachus 

 longirostris Fabricius (sp. 1775), type examined = Macropodia 

 longirostris Leach, 1814 (teste Leach, 1815) ] and Leptopodia tenui- 

 rostris Leach, 1814 (Appendix), which are congeneric, and the 

 first of which is the type of Macropodia, Edin. Encyc., 395, 1814. 

 It should be observed that on page 395 the name . Leptopodia 

 appears in the synonymy of Maia phalangium r ihus: ''[Maia] 

 8. Phalangium. C. phalangium Pennant. Leptopodia phalangium , 

 Leach's MSS. See plate ccxxi, fig. 4, and Appendix.'' This is 

 followed by ' [Genus] XXV. Macropodia. Sp. 1. Longirostris 

 Fabr. C. dodecos L. ? ' The genus Macropodia is then described. 

 As noted above, the species phalangium and longirostris are iden 

 tical. The preference should be given to the name of the genus 

 regularly established rather than to one suggested but not 

 adopted. Leptopodia of the Appendix, although probably pub 

 lished simultaneously with Macropodia, was the result of subse 

 quent revision, and should not, I think, take precedence. Lep 

 topodia is therefore a synonym of Macropodia. The species sagil- 

 taria, Fabricius, 1793, which has been considered the type of 

 Leptopodia, was not placed in the genus until 1815, Zool. Misc., 

 II, 15, and Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XI, 331,. where Leach 

 retains Macropodia for phalangium and tenuirostris and recharac 

 terizes Leptopodia. See also Mai. Podoph. Brit., explan. of pi. 



