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this practice has gradually died out and is now outlawed by the Rules. 

 All careful modem workers credit these names to the writer who first 

 validated them under the Eules. This same rule (Article 21), how- 

 ever, requires that if both a name and its description or validation 

 are supplied by some other worker, then that worker is the author of 

 the name. For example, if in an article by Jones there is printed 

 '''Emus albus Smith n. sp.," followed by a description which is signed 

 at the end "Smith," the author of alhus is Smith, for he has been 

 directly credited with both the name and its validating description. 

 The author is often cited as Smith in Jones. 



It has apparently escaped notice that in some of the works which 

 cite manuscript names of other workers there are definite statements 

 that both the names and the validations were taken from manuscripts 

 of the other workers. For these names the manuscript author must 

 be accepted as the author of the name. The following are some of the 

 works in which such manuscript names are cited for Staphylinidae, 

 with notes on the actual author of the names. 



Graven HOKST, 1802, Coleoptera Microptera Brunsvicensia. (Cites Knoch names 

 but does not credit him with descriptions.) 



Gravenhorst, 1806, Monographia Coleopteronim Micropterorum. (Same as 

 1802.) 



SAMOTTEiiE, 1819 and 1824, The entomologist's useful compendium. ( Cites Kirby 

 and Leach names. On page 172, Leach is credited also with the arrangement 

 and subdivision in the Staphylinidae (which is the validation) of all the 

 new names. Since apparently the Kirby names were included in the Leach 

 manuscripts, Leach becomes the author of the new names and of the geno- 

 type designations.) 



Dejean, 1821, Catalogue de la collection de coleopteres . . . (Cites names of 

 Leach, Megerle, etc. but does not credit them with validation — if they are 

 validated.) 



Curtis, 1829, A guide to an arrangement of British insects. (Cites EQrby and 

 Leach names but does not credit the validation to them.) 



Stephens, 1829a, The nomenclature of British insects. (Cites Kirby and Leach 

 names but does not credit them with the validating arrangement.) 



Stephens, 1829b, A systematic catalogue of British insects. (Same as 1829a.) 



Stephens, 1832-1834, Illustrations of British entomology. (Cites Kirby and 

 Leach names and on page 99 states: "In the subsequent account of the 

 contents of this and the three remaining families of the Coleoptera, I have 

 availed myself of the liberal present from the Rev. W. Kirby of his manu- 

 script notes and descriptions thereof; though, from having had less expe- 

 rience in their investigation than that celebrated writer, I greatly fear that, 

 notwithstanding his elaborate descriptions, I shall fall into error in my 

 attempted abridgment of them in order to suit the limits of this work, as 

 I have not sufficient time to reinvestigate them . . ." 



Dejean, 1833-1837, Catalogue des col6opt6res . . . (Same as 1821.) 



All other data under each name are arranged under side headings, 

 as follows : 



