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(2) Genders of genera. Odontosoelis /it%mos)'.s for -noso-; GnApnosoMA Zmeatom 



for-ato; DiPSOOOEiS alienum for -enus;* AoASTSoaoMX haimorrhoidale tor 

 •dalis; AcETEOPis carinatus for -nata; Cjmptobeochis pimctulatus for 

 ■lata. The Greek KoRia, " bug," is masculine ; other forms ending in -is 

 should be feminine, except in a few special cases. Mieis is a fancy-word, and 

 has no gender. 



(3) Compounds involving verbs in the 1st person singular present indicative, instead 



of the radix. They may in general be easily rectified : — 



PiEZODOEUS should be written Piestodoet7S. 



PlEZOSTETHUS „ PlESTOSTETHUS. 



Temnostethus „ Tmetostethits or Stethotomus. 



Systellonotus „ Systolonotus. 



Platynopus „ PiATYPtrs (if not preoccupied in 



Mammalia). 



(4) Compounds of two nouns, whereof the first is a mutilated form of the nominative 



case, instead of the radix. Substituting this latter, we obtain — 



For Ettsaecoeis, . .- . . Eusaecocoeis. 



„ Teopicoeis, .... Teopidocoeis. 



„ Rhaphigastee, . . . Ehaphidogastee. 



„ Elasmostethus, . . . Elasmatostethus. 



„ Myemecoeis, .... Myemecocoeis. 



„ Ceealeptus, .... Ceeatoleptus. 



„ Tropistethus, . . . Teopidostethus. 



„ Myemedobia, . . .^ . Mybmedonobia. 



(5) Hybrid words, half Latin and half Greek 5 ex. gr., Aeenocoeis for PSAMMOCOEIS. 



(6) Compounds of two nouns, in which the subject is placed first, and the subordinate 



idea last, thereby destroying the sense. Let anyone try this inversion upon 

 the English compounds "London-Bridge," " watch-pocTcet," '' sheep-stcaler,'* 

 " blaclc-beetle" " blach-giiurd," etc., and the result will be similar to that of — 



COEIMEL^NA for MeLANOCOEIS. 



Deeephysia ,, Physodeea. 



(7) Compounds of two nouns, of which the first is not in the radical form, and which 



are not joined by the proper letter of connection, viz., O in Greek, and If in 

 Latin. Nearly the same as class (4) . Ex. gr. .- — 



Cyiiecoeis for Cyllocoeis. 



ACETEOPIS „ ACOTEOPIS. 



GOXIANOTUS „ GONIONOTUS, 



CABDiASTETnus ,, Caediostethtts. 



* It may not be entirely useless if I explain here (though explanation is, perhaps, scarcely required) 

 the reason for the masculine termination of the species of genera compounded of the word Koiiis, as 

 my previous remarks on Acanthosoma may possibly seem at variance with tliis correction. 



DlPSOCORls = "thirst-bug;'' a compound noun substantive, which, therefore, must have some 

 gender or other. It takes its gender from tlie subject {i. e., " bug "), aud not from the accessory idea. 



Acaijtho30MA = " spiny-bodied ;'' a compound noun adjective, agreeing with some substantive 

 understood, or supposed to be understood, and, in this instance, from the termination, supposed to be 

 feminine. If it were masculine, we should have required Acanthoiomu» ; if neuter, Acanthosomum. 



It will be readily seen that there is no analogy between words like Dipsocoris and words like 

 Acanthoioma. The former involves both subject and predicate; the subject is a Inig, whereof it is 

 predicated that he is thirsty. In Acanthosovia the subject is not contained, but understood, and con- 

 ventionally made feminine; and of this subject It is predicated that it has a spiny body. Body is not 

 the sul)ject, but part of tlie predicate. — T. A. M. 



1 Yet albo-inaculatus, nigro-cinctus, etc., are admissible; being in fact two word;*, and not 

 compounded. As compounds, we should write albipes, nigriceps, etc. — T. A. M. 



