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NOTE XV. 

 ON THE GENUS ARAEOSTERNUS de M. 



BY 



Dr. J. G. de MAN. 



I am sorry to have to announce that the genus Araeo- 

 sternus , which I described some time ago as new (Notes 

 from the Leyden Museum, Vol. Ill (1881) p. 131, and 

 in Dutch in the : Tijdschrift voor Entomologie , Vol. XXV 

 (1881/82) p. 1; pi. 1 and 2), is identical with the genus 

 Palinurellus , described by Prof. Ed. von Martens in 1878 

 as a new form of the family of Loricata in the : ))Sit- 

 zungsberichte der Gesgllschaft naturforschender Freunde zu 

 Berlin, 1878, pag. 131". Being myself acquainted with 

 the genus Palirmrellus by the diagnosis which Dr. Geoi'ge 

 Pfeff'er has criven in his treatise : » Die Panzerkrebse und die 

 Clypeastriden des Hamburger Museums, mit 1 Taf.", pu- 

 blished in the » Verhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen 

 Vereins zu Hamburg, 1880", I was the more surprised 

 of this fact , to which Prof, von Martens called my attention 

 after I had sent him a copy of my Dutch description and 

 figures of the genus Ai^aeo ster mis. Unfortunately an im- 

 portant slip of the pen occurs in Dr. Pfeffer's diagnosis, 

 the author describing the sternum as being >->halb so lang 

 als breit''' instead of »]ialh so breit als lang''. I therefore 

 supposed Palinurellus to be quite a different genus and 

 created the new name of Araeostermis for the Indian animal. 



Our Indian form however, which should henceforth be 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseutn , Vol. IV. 



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