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facts, a thing I should have done years ago, but the matter was not 

 called to my attention forcibly until recently in going over the manu- 

 script of the forthcoming Bibliography of the Homoptera of the World. 



DlCTYOPHARA VERSUS DlCTYOPHORA. 



Van Duzee in his recent catalog of the Hemiptera, 1917, gives Dictvo- 

 plwra (sic} and cites Germar, Silb. Revue Ent. I, 175, 1833, as authority. 

 This, however, is wrong, as I have recently determined from an exam- 

 ination of Germar's paper, where the name is spelled Dictyophara. I 

 have reasons for believing that the paper in my possession is an original 

 copy, as it has bound with it an autographic letter by G. Silbermann 

 to M. Audouin, dated "Strasbourg 16 Mars 1833." I presume that 

 this matter has been confused because Fieber states in a footnote after 

 the genus Dictyophara in his Les Cicadincs d'Europe, 209, that "Dr. 

 Slal rectifie d'apres SL^TVOV, rcte et <apocr pallium, tegmen, dans Hem. 

 Afric. IV, 1866, p. 154." Stal is, however, apparently only giving the 

 derivation of the name as he states in a footnote, Hem. Afric. IV, 154, 

 ''a BL^TVOV ' - rete et <j>apoo- =- pallium, tegmen." The facts in the case 

 as far as I have been able to trace them are Germar wrote originally 

 Dictyophara, but Spinola 1839 started the trouble by writing Dyctiophora 

 Germar. In this he was followed by Duponchel who examined Spinola's 

 paper apparently before it was published. See below. Stal corrects 

 this in his Hon. Afric., 1866, to the original spelling, but two years 

 later Kirschbaum writes Dictyophora. Stal was followed apparently 

 by all subsequent writers until Melichar in his Monographic dcr Dictyo- 

 plwrincn revives the name as spelled by Kirschbaum. Van Duzee fol- 

 lows Germar and Stal in his Check List of Hemiptera, but changes to 

 the Kirschbaum-Melichar spelling in his Catalogue of Hemiptera. The 

 genus should stand, therefore, Dictyophara as originally spelled by 

 Germar and should have as synonyms Dictiophora (Germar), Spinola 

 and Dictyophora (Germar) Kirschbaum. This matter would not be of 

 so much importance if it were not for the fact that modern classifica- 

 tion bases a subfamily upon this genus and in the minds of many this 

 subfamily is entitled to family rank. 



THE DATE OF DUPONCHEL'S REVIEW OF SPINOLA'S "EssAi SUR LES 



FULGORELLES." 



Van Duzee gives Duponchel's review of Spinola's Essai snr Ics Pul- 

 (/orclles, Revue Zoologiquc, II, 199-206, precedence over Spinola's paper 

 in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, VIII, 133-337, 339-454. This 1 believe is in 

 error. Duponchel dates his paper "Paris, 9 juillet 1830," and states in 

 the introduction that he is publishing this preliminary review because 

 Spinola is offering a new classification. The Reviic Zoologique was not 

 published, however, until 1840, according to the title page of the publi- 

 cation, and in the meantime Spinola'a paper was published in 1839 in the 

 Annales. Therefore Spinola's names take precedence over Duponchel's 

 names throughout. 



