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CONURUS Stephens— Continued 

 Discussion — Continued 



Tachinus, in which that species now stands. If 'bipustulatus Gravenhorst 

 be the type, these three names can be retained in their customary sense. 

 This picture is complicated, however, by the fact that there is an older 

 synonym available for Continis-Conosoma-Conosomus. Because of this the 

 name will have to be changed in any case. It is therefore believed 

 better to take the strict view of Stephens' citation of 1)ipustulatus 

 Fabriclus and Westwood's designation of it as genotype of Conurus. 

 Synonymic homonyms: 



Conurus Stephens, 1829b, p. 272. 

 Conurus Stephens, 1832, p. 188. 

 Synonyms: (See also Tachinus) 



CoNosoMUs Motschulsky, 1857, p. 54. [New name.] 

 CoNosoMA Kraatz, 1857, p. 431. [New name. Not Lenz, 1794.] 

 Variant spellings: 



Canurus Kraatz, 1874, p. 292.^ 

 CoNORUs Reed, 1874, p. .337. 



CoNURA Matthews, 1838, p. 188. [Not Spinola, 1837.] 

 Notes : The genus that has always been known by one of the three names 

 Conurus, Conosoma, or Conosomus must now be known as Sepedophilus, 

 which is older than the only one of the three which is not a homonym. 

 Whether the three should be listed in the synonymy of this name or 

 Tachinus (as done here) depends upon the acceptance of Stephens's cita- 

 tion of author for Conurus bipustulatus, as explained under Conurus, The 

 misspelling Conura of Matthews, 1838, as homonym of Conura Spinola, 

 1837. 

 COOMANIA Cameron, 1939c, p. 22. 



Genotype: Coomania tonkinensis Cameron. 

 Fixed by : Cameron, 1939c, p. 22, by monotypy. 

 COPHOPHYLUS [Error for Coprophilus]. 

 COPIATA des Gozis, 1886, p. 12. [Synonym of Aleochara.} 

 Genotype: Copiata fuscipes (Fabricius) {Staphylinus). 

 Fixed by : des Gozis, 1886, p. 12, by original designation. 

 Later citations: C. curtula (Goeze), by Fenyes, 1918, p. 21; by Tottenham, 



1949, p. 403 ; not originally included. 

 Synonyms: (See Aleochara). 

 Variant spellings : 



CopiATE Neave, 1939, p. 827. 

 COPIATE [Error for Copiata]. 

 COPRACHARA [Error for Coprochara]. 

 COPROBONUS [Error for Coproporus]. 

 COPROBORUS [Error for Coproporus]. 

 COPROCERAMIUS Gistel, 1857, p. 9. [Subgenus of Ischnopoda.] 



Genotype: Coproceramius impressifrons (Mannerheim) {Bolitochara). 

 Fixed by : Gistel, 1857, p. 9, by original designation and monotypy. 

 Later citations: G. impressifrons (Mannerheim), by Strand, 1917, p. 81. 

 Synonyms: (See also I schnopoda) 



DiMETBoTA Mulsant and Rey, 1873b, p. 165. 

 Dalotia Casey, 1910a, p. 106. 

 Abisota Casey, 1910a, p. 133. 

 DiMETBOTiNA Casey, 1911, p. 143. 



* Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 18. 



