RiciiAKDsoy. 1839 197 



249. RICHARDSON (1839). Description of Fishes Collected of Port Arthur in 



Van Diemen's Land. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, VII. 

 John Richardson. 



Latris Richardson, 98; orthotype L. hecateia Rich. 



Nemadactylus Richardson, 98; orthotype N. concinnus Rich. Spelled Nemato- 

 UAcTYLUS by Gill. 



250. STORER (1839). A Report on the Fishes of Massachusetts. Boston Journ. 



Nat. Hist., II. 

 David Humphreys Storer (1804-1891). 

 Cryptacanthodes Storer, 28 ; orthotype C. maculatus Storer. 



251. SWAINSON (1839). The Xalnral History of Fishes, Amphibians and 



Reptiles or Monocardian Animals. II. 

 William Swainson. 



In a review of Swainson's Genera of Fishes. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1882, page 272, Dr. Joseph Swain has made identifications of all of the series 

 Swainson's genera, indicating a logotype for each. This designation of type 

 must stand in every case, except when a prior indication has been made, as 

 was done in a few cases by Bonaparte and by Bleeker. Swainson's work is 

 perhaps the last and certainly the most unwelcome of an unfortunate series to 

 which belong Scopoli's Introductio, Fischer's Zoognosia, Rafinesque's 

 Analyse de la Nature, works which treat of the whole scope of Ichthyology, 

 adding new genera here and there, but without special investigation of the 

 animals concerned, leaving their generic names imperfectly defined as a bur- 

 den to the real students who must give to these names their final meaning. 

 Of the 153 new names introduced by Swainson, about 30 must be retained on 

 the score of priority of date, but there is not a dozen of the whole number 

 based on any clear understanding of the relations of the species indicated. 

 In Chapter I of Vol. 2, on pages 167 to 197, Swainson gives an analytical key 

 to the genera he recognizes. In this part no species are mentioned and in 

 several cases the genera bear other names when they appear later in the reg- 

 ular text in Chapter II of Vol. 2 (197-339). 



Erosa Swainson, II, 61; tautotype Synanceja erosa LangsdorfY; type not indicated 

 but understood from context, and from the generic name chosen. The genus 

 is valid and was revived by Jordan & Starks (1904). 



Trichosomus Swainson, II, 61, 265; logotype Apistus trachinoides Cuv. & Val. 

 Accidentally spelled also Trichophasia on page 61. Regarded as preoccupied 

 by Trichosoma, a genus of worms, and by Trichosomus, a genus of bettles ; 

 replaced by Vespicula Jordan & Rich. Prosopodasvs Cantor, originally a 

 substitute name for Apistus, is transferred by Giinther to A. trachinoides, an 

 arrangement apparently not allowable, as Cuvier does not mention that species 

 among "les Apistes". Trichophasia, an error, not a new name, seems also 

 ineligible. 



Trichophasia Swainson, II, 61 ; (used evidently by error of proof-reader for Tri- 

 chosomus) which form appears before ahd after on page 61 and formally on 

 page 279. 



Clinitrachus Swainson, II, 75; II, 276; orthotype (on p. 75) Blennius variabilis 

 Raf., a species not mentioned on page 276. hence B. superciliosus L., a 

 species of Clinus, was indicated as type by Swain. A synonym of Cristi- 

 CEPs Cuv. & Val. (1836). 



