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because he did not cousider them to be of the same family, although 

 like them. 



Mr. Garman tliinks that the use of the name Puciliidiv is precluded 

 on account of the previous use of the term rcxcilidw by Kirby, in 1837, 

 for a genus of beetles. The two names, however, differ m etymology 

 and form (one having five syllables and two /'s, while the other has only 

 four syllables and a single v). I'm-iliida- is derived from Pa'ciUa, and 

 Vadl'idae from raeilns. Conseipieutly, the two do not eontiict, and it 

 cannot be said properly that the WAMi^d Piecilndtv "was jireoccupied in 

 insects" (p. 10). Furthermore, it nuiy be added (though not essential to 

 the question) that i'«'C'///V/ft' is not in use in entomology. Indeed, the 

 genus Fwcilu.s, on which it was based, is now regarded as a mere section 

 or subgenus of Feronia (by most European authors) or rtero.stichus (by 

 most American authors), and is referred to the Harpaline subfamily of 

 the' Carabidiv. 



The name Poecilioidei of Fitzinger, 1832, was applied to an l^mbrid 

 only, as remarked by Garman (p, 15), but simply because Umbra was 

 the only genus occurring in Austria; evidently the name was derived 

 from Poccilia, and the group • intended to be typified by that genus. 



Mr. Garman's views as to the subdivisions of the family are quite 

 similar to my own. In his preliminary synopsis (pp. 18, 19), he adopts 

 the subfamilies Cyprinodontinw, Pwciliina', Jenynsiind', AnahJepina', 

 Gambusiinw and Eaplochilina'. These have all been given in jny 

 '• Families and Subfamilies of Fishes," in which article, however, Giin- 

 ther's name Fioidulinwis used iu&tead oi^ Haplochilina', and Orestiina' is 

 further distinguished. Later on (p. 159) Mr. Garnnin has substituted 

 for Ganibusiina' the name P>eU>n<'HOvinw and added two other subfamilies, 

 Oresti((.sina' and NoihobrnnchHn(v. 



I have not hitherto, as a rule, adopted Bleeker's names ending in 

 ini for subfamilies, because Bleeker did not give them as subtamily 

 names, but as those of cohorts or stirpes, divisions of his subfamilies 

 for which he used the sufhx formes. jSTevertheless, I am not indisi>ose(l 

 to do so, and perhaps Mr. (iarman should be followed in taking the 

 Bleekerian names with the modified Ibrm Haploehlliiiiv and Bclojirso- 

 ciiKV. Bleeker's cohorts were, however, very different in limits Worn 

 the subfamilies Funduliiuv and (Jambusihuv, Bleeker restricting them 

 respecti\ely to the type genera, while most of the genera of Fundulinoi 

 and Gambusiime were referred to the cohors or stirps GyprinodonUni. 



'Fitzinger gave names ending in o/rtfi only to the groups typified liy tlie genera 

 involved in the names. The groups named after the genera with the suffix oidel 

 were not ranlied as families by Fitzinger, but as groups of genera under families. 

 For example, the Poecilioidei constituted the first group (Grnppe); the Cijpriiioidei 

 the second group, and the Salmonoidei the third group, of what Fitzinger designated 

 as the family EUiptosomafa (p. 333), while the family Cylindiosoiuata and the group 

 (Gruppe) Esocoidel (p. 339) included the pikes. Consequently I have not heretol'ore 

 included Fitzinger's names iu the lists of synonyms of families. 



