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Ferris (Mem. Pacific Coast Ent. Soc, vol. 1, p. 251, 1951) accepted the 

 type oi Jerrisi as being the female from Procavia brucei rudolfi, and 

 stated that this specimen should be in the U. S. National Museum. 

 There is in the collection a female with the following data on the label 

 in Ferris' handwriting: "Ferris Col. 474, Prolinognathus lepto- 

 cephalus (Eh.), from Procavia brucei rudolfi, Marsabit Road, B. E. 

 Africa, U. S. N. M. 184247." This specimen is the holotype of Pro- 

 linognathus ferrisi Fahrenholz and has been so labeled. 

 Peesent status: As originally described. 



Genus Scipio Cummings 

 Scipio longiceps Ewing, Proc. Helm. Soc. Washington, vol. 4, p. 81, fig. 29, 1937. 



Type data: USNM 49919. Holot^'pe male from Thryonomys 

 gregor pusillus [Thryonomys gregorianus pusillus] (USNM 184180), 

 British East Africa, Maji-ya-Chumvi. 



Present status: A junior synonym of Scipio avlacodi (Neumann), 

 1911, new synonymy. Ferris (Mem. Pacific Coast Ent. Soc, vol. 1, 

 p. 154, 1951) expressed the opinion that S. longiceps Ewing was 

 probably a synonym of Scipio aulacodi (Neumann). The holotype 

 male of S. longiceps and a female with the same data as the holotype, 

 and a second male from the same locality and host, dift'er in no way 

 from Ferris' (Stanford Univ. Publ. Biol. Sci., vol. 2, No. 3, p. 170, 

 figs. 113, 114a, b, c, 1922) description and figures of aulacodi. Ewing's 

 supposed differences were due partly to the fact that the abdomen of 

 longiceps holotype is telescoped and therefore smaller in relation to the 

 length of the legs. The head is not longer than in Ferris' drawings, 

 nor is the shape of the tarsal claws different. In Ewing's specimen 

 the claws are more extended than in Ferris' drawings, leading to his 

 mistaken impression. Geographically, the distribution of aulacodi is 

 such that one would expect to find it in the type locality of longiceps. 

 (Maji-ya-Chumvi is in southeast Kenya.) 



Genus Solenopotes Enderlein 



Linogtiathus panamensis F.vfing, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, No. 5, 

 p. 119, 1927. 



Type data: USNM 40160. ''Described from a few females which 

 are a part of a lot of six specimens," from Odocoileus chiriquensis [Odo- 

 coileus virginianus chiriquensis] (origin, Panama), which died at 

 National Zoological Park on Jan. 28, 1925 (USNM 240843). 



There is in the collection a slide with six females, all of which are 

 accepted as being syntypes, since there is no way of knowing which 

 "few" females of the lot of six Ewing referred to in his original de- 

 scription. These syntype females are all the same species. A well- 



