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

 Lupa forcei)s. 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- 

 ])tudia,and has since been given with amended characters in the 

 Zoological Miscellany and in the eleventh volume of the Trans- 

 actions of the Linnean 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 Neip- 

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

 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 Encyclopae- 

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

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

 longirostris Fabricius (sp. 1775), t^^pe 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 synon^miy of Afaia jihalangium, thus : ' \_Maia'\ 

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

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

 followed l)y ' [Genus] XXV. Macropodia. Sp. 1. Longirostris 

 Fabr. C. dodecos L. ? ' Tlie genus il/aa-ojKxivVt is then described. 

 As noted above, the species phalaagium, and longirostris are iden- 

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

 regularly established rather than to one suggested l)ut 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 s3monym of Macropodia. The si)ecies sagit- 

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

 LepAopodia, 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. 



