INDEX ZOOLOGICUS. 98 



Index Zoologicns.* 



By L. B. PROUT, F.E.S. 



Almost contemporaneously with the first volume of Mr. Sher- 

 born's great Index Aninialiiim (antea, pp. 13-14), another important 

 and long-awaited work of reference has been given to the zoological 

 world. This is ^Ir. Waterhonse's Index Zooloi/icHs, which indexes all 

 the new generic names brought forward from the year 1880-1900, i.e., 

 from the date at which Scudder closed his Nomenclator Zoologicus 

 (1879) to the end of the century, and also adds some thousands of 

 earlier names which had been overlooked by Scudder. 



This is a book to accept and to use rather than to formally 

 "review," and the object of this notice is to contribute a small supple- 

 ment of names which have still escaped detection ; but it may be 

 stated that the enormously laborious work seems to have been very 

 carefully and conscientiously done, both by compiler and editor, espe- 

 cially in the abstracting and collecting of the names from the volumes 

 of the Zoological Record. Necessarily, no attempt has been made to 

 distinguish between valid names and invalid, as that must admittedly 

 be left to the specialist. The present writer heartily endorses the 

 protest against the worrying " emendations " which have so compli- 

 cated the work to be done, especially those which are employed with- 

 out a clear and unequivocal indication of their nature. By the 

 way, there is a short series of " emendations " by Unger in the Arch. 

 Ver. Fr. Naturfi. Meckl. for 1856 (Heft x., Abth. i, pp. 53-63) almost 

 on all-fours with the (in-)famous lot by Sodoffsky, but which seems to 

 have escaped notice; he repeats some of Sodofl'sky's {e.g., Phanessa 

 for Vanessa), and is also responsible for : — p. 56, Cltaraxits vice 

 Charaxes ; p. 58, Lithcsia vice IJthosia ; p. 59, Mawersa vice Mames- 

 tra ; p. 60, Mefhgmna vice Mgthimna, Charadrina vice Caradrina, 

 Nonacria vice Nonagria ; p. 61, Heliotis vice Heliothis, Manes vice 

 Mania, Amphidasea vice Amphidasis, Aspilata vice Aspilates, Zerena 

 vice Zerene. 



Our supplementary list to Mr. Waterhonse's (almost entirely lepi- 

 doptera) stands at present as follows (a few were handed to him in 

 time for insertion, but the majority of those now given were noticed 

 too late, or their omission was not suspected) : — 

 Agrostobia, Boie, Isis, 1835. 

 Argns, Lam,, Hist. Nat., etc., iv, 1817. 

 Aricia, " R. L.," Jena. Allg. Lit. Zeit., 



i, 1817. 

 Auge, Oken, Lehrb. Zool., i, 1815. 

 Chelone, " R. L.," loe. cit. 

 Chimadia, Speyer, Isis, 1839. 

 Chlenoniorpha, Motsch., Et.. ix, 1860. 

 Chrysoptera, [Zinek.,] Allg. Lit. Zeit., 



iii, 1817. 

 Deileptena, Guer., Voy. Coquille, Atl&s, 



1831. 

 Deltote, " R. L.," lac. cit. 

 Dicranura, Latr., in Regne Aiiim., 



nouv. ed., v, 1829. 

 Diptychis, Feld., 1874 (wrongly entered 



in Z.R. as Dyptychia). 



Purcula, Lam., Hist. Nat., etc., iii, 



1816. 

 Hapala, " R. L.," loc. cit. 

 iBodynamia, H.-S., Auss. Scktiiett., i, 



1850. 

 Lagopus, "R. L.," loc. cit. 

 Lampetia, Curt., Guide, 1830. 

 Lamprotes, " R. L.," loc. cit. 

 Laspeyresia, " R. L.," loc. cit. 

 Luceria, Heinem., Schni. Deutsch., i, 



1859. 

 Mimas, Hb., Verz., 1816-26. 

 Odonptera, Latr., in Cuv., nouv. ed.,v, 



1829. 

 Ophiogenes, ''R. L.," loc. cit. 

 Ophiosogonia, H.-S., Auss. Schmett., i, 



1856. 



• Compiled for the Zoological Society by C. O. Waterhouse, edited by Dr. D. 

 Sharp. London, Zoological Society's House, 1902. 



