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IX. MULLER, Delineationes Natures, II, 1767, 141 (fide Sherborne, 



Index Animalium). 



Philip Ludwig Statius Muller. 

 Not seen by us. 



Acus Muller, 141 ; type probably Syngnathus acus L. 



Equivalent to Syngnathus L. 

 Orbis Muller, 141 ; type probably Diodon hystrix L. 



Equivalent to Diodon L. 



We copy these references from Sherborne. In a memoir by Professor Miiller,, 

 1774, vol. Ill, p. 341, Acus appears as a specific name under Syngnathus acus, 

 and again, 1774, IV, 341, as a vernacular under Esox belone. Under Diodon 

 HYSTRIX (III, 327) he quotes "Orbis maximus spinosus." Mr. Garman, who gives 

 us these references, remarks : "I would say that neither of these is available as a 

 generic name." Neither is used in Miiller's supplement to the Systema Natures,. 

 1776. 



X. GEOFFROY, Descriptions de 719 Plantes etc., 1767. 



fixiENNE Louis Geoffroy. 



This paper we have not seen. We copy from Sherborne. 



Ichthyocolla Geoffroy, 399; type presumably Acipenser huso L. 



The name, meaning fish-glue, was early applied to the fish producing it. Prior 

 to Huso Brandt, as a name for a subgenus of sturgeons. 



Harengus Geoffroy, 405 ; type presumably Clupea harengus L., in 

 which case it is a synonym of Clupea. 



Lucius Geoffroy, 407; type presumably Esox lucius L. 



Trutta Geoffroy, 719; type presumably Salmo trutta L. 



XL VALMONT DE BOMARE, Dictionnaire Raisonne Universe! 

 d'Histoire Naturelle, 1764, 1768, 1774, 1791. 



Jean Christophe Valmont de Bomare. 



The eligibility of Valmont's names is questioned as binomial only by 

 accident, and not accepted as genera by the author himself in 1791. 



Of this work we have examined four editions, the first bearing date 

 of 1764; the "new edition," considerably enlarged, of 1768; the second 



