PART 2 



TYPE SPECIES OF THE GENERA OF THE FAMILY MUTILLIDAB 



The number of genera proposed up to the present time in the 

 family Mutillidae is comparatively few, and about 75 per cent of 

 these have been erected within recent years with a type species 

 designated. On account of these two facts the nomenclatorial prob- 

 lems presented in a review of the genotypes of this group are neither 

 complicated nor numerous. It is believed, however, that the infor- 

 mation presented in this list of genera will prove valuable in future 

 work in the classification of the family. It has also been pointed 

 out by Kohwer and Fagan, Hyslop, Gahan and Fagan, and Lindsey 

 that such a treatment of the genera is desirable for the purpose of 

 promoting nomenclatorial stability. It is for these reasons that the 

 following review of the type species of the genera of the Mutillidae 

 has been compiled. 



The original reference has been examined by the writer in every 

 case. All of the generic names have been checked in Scudder's 

 Nomenclator Zoologicus and the generic indexes of the Zoological 

 Record to determine their validity. The following terms are used 

 to designate the various ways in which the genotypes have been fixed : 



Ortliotype^ a type by original designation. 



Haylotype, a type by single reference (only a single species origi- 

 nally included). 



Logotype^ a type by subsequent designation. 



Pseudotype, an erroneous type designation. 



LIST OF GENERIC NAMES 



AGAMA Blake (not Daudin, 1802) ; Photopsis Blake. 

 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 1871, pp. 218 and 258. 

 Eighteen species originally included. 



Logotype: Agama imperialis Blake; by present designation. 

 ALLOMUTILLA Ashmead. 



Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1899, p. 57. 

 Haplotype : Mutilla melicerta Smith. 



Synonym of Dasylabris Radoszkowski according to Andre, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, 

 fasc. 11, 1903, p. 65. 

 ALLONEURION Ashmead. 



Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1899, p. 59. 

 Haplotype : Agama kokpetica Radoszkowski. 



Synonym of Pseudophotopsis Andr§ according to Andr6, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, 

 fasc. 11, 1903, p. 21, and Bischofe, Archiv. f. Naturg., vol. 86, Abt. A, 

 1920, p. 94. 



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