RICIIARDSON". 1839 1''7 



249. kICHARUSON U839). Description of Fishes Collected m Port Arthur i„ 

 I 'an Dicmcn's Land. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, VII. 

 John Richardson. 

 Latris Richardson, 98; orthotype L. hecatkia Rich. 



Nemadactylus Richardson, 98; orthotype X. concinnus Rich. Spelled Nemaio- 

 [pAcTVLts by Gill. 



250 STORER (18J9>. ./ Report on III,- Fishes of Massachusetts. Boston Journ. 



Xat. Hist., II. 

 David Humpurevs Storer (.1804-1891). 

 Cryptacanthodes Storer, 28; orthotype C. macuu^tus Storer. 



251. SWAINSON (1839). The .\atiiral History of Fishes, Amphibians and 

 Reptiles or Monocardian Animals. II. 

 William Swainson. 

 1m a review of Swainson's Genera of Fishes, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1882, page 272, Dr. Joseph Swain has made idcntilications of all of the series 

 Swainson's genera, indicating a logotype for eacli. This designation of type 

 must stand in every case, except when a prior indication has been made, as 

 was done in a few cases by Bonaparte and by Bleeker. Swainson's work is 

 perhaps the last and certainly the most unwelcome of an unfortunate series to 

 which belong Scopoli's Introductio, Fischer's Zoognosia. Rafmesque's 

 Analyse de la Nature, works which treat of the whole scope of Ichthyology, 

 adding new genera here and there, but without special investigation of the 

 animals concerned, leaving their generic names imperfectly defined as a bur 

 den to the real students who must give to these names their final meaning. 

 Of the 153 new names introduced by Swainson, about 30 must be retained on 

 the score of priority of date, but there is not a dozen of the whole number 

 based on any clear understanding of the relations of the species indicated 

 In Chapter I of Vol. 2, on pages 167 to 19", Swainson gives an analytical key 

 to the genera he recognizes. In this part no species are mentioned and in 

 several cases the genera bear other names when they appear later in the reg 

 ular text in Chapter II of Vol. 2 (197-339). 



Erosa Swainson, II, 61: tautotype Synanceia erosa Langsdorff; type not indicated 

 but understood from context, and from the generic name chosen. The genus 

 is valid and was revived by Jordan & Starks (1904). 



Trichosomus Swainson, II, 61. 265; logotype Apisti's trachi.noidf.s Cuv. & Val 

 .Xccidcntally spelled also Trichophasia on page 61. Regarded as preoccupied 

 by Trichosoma, a genus of worms, and by Tricikisomu.x, a genus of bettles; 

 replaced by Vespicila Jordan & Rich. Prosopodasvs Cantor, originally a 

 substitute name for .Npistus, is transferred by Giinther to A. trachinoiues, an 

 arrangement apparently not allowable, as Cuvicr does not mention that species 

 among "les .'\ pistes". Thichopiiasia. an error, not a new name, seems also 

 ineligible 



Trichophasia Swainson, II, 61 ; (used evidently by error of proof-reader for Tri 

 CHosoMfs) which form appears before and after on page 61 and formally on 

 page 279. 



Clinitrachus Sw.iinson, II. 75; II, 276; orthotype (on p. 75» nLENNii;s variaiulis 

 Raf., a .species not mentioned on page 276, hence B. superciliosus L., a 

 species of Clini;s, was indicated as type by Swain .\ svnonym of Cristi- 

 cws Cuv. & Val. nR,T6). 



