Anmhc 

 of genera ^ 



■r defect in 1 

 which cause 



lh:s pap 



er IS the artificial an 

 V- related genera to 



-angement 

 be widely 



s.'|)aralc«I s 



ucli as Leilx 



"^rgkiti 



lich is only a species 



of Peuce- 



(lanum. On 



:.)xis which 





a subgenus to Cy 



'UTopterus, 



and Lr.niat 







iK>st into Cvmoptcr, 





There 



is a great in 



ipro\-cm 



lent in the figures (v 



vhich was 







r in his 



treatment of Cymopterus) in 



that they h 



ave abandon 



ed the I 



ise of water soaked : 



and there- 













'"^'^ Mr^Vose defends t 



his treat 



;ment of genera on the groTind 



that it hns! 



become a fnd 



1 to split 



UP eenera. and spec 



ies, which 



is the best 3 





'. Brittor 



lians have ever advanced for it. 



and which 



is no argum 





dl. If there is noth' 



ing better 



than a fad i 



to cause 'the 



n^ak^ng 



of about 30.000 new 





lions in fiv 





zre ther 



e are but little ov( 



^^"lo'Sx) 



species, it ij 



; about time 



to call i 



I halt. The Brittonia 





clature' was 



said by its 



authors 



(see Underwood an 



td Pollard 



in the Tom 



'V Bulletin ir 



1 1895) t 



o have settled forever the ques- 





ies and givei 



n us a s 



table system but sine 



:e then in 



.-inv one ve:i 



ir up to the ; 



present 



there have been twic. 



» as many 



r1,an-es of 



names as oc« 



nirred h 



1 any ten years previ 



ously and 



tile maniifa( 





at full blast, some wi 





erseding themselves tw( 



3 or thr( 





andRyd- 



^''?em"r'' 



dition the ne 



w Vienr 



la code has relegated 



the whole 





:he back woods wh( 



.re it belongs Is to 





tUahh'shed 



genera, but 



unfortunately does not touch <he 



:ven and shows a 

 lie's' ot umtorm study in the family. Cymopterus is pretty 

 well chopped up. but is still capable of being split (what re- 

 *^ ' ' good as those already 



consistently carried to the limit and not halt half way, 

 • should It fail to be applied to all genera equally. 



IS good a variety as the var. Eastwoodae both ecologically 

 t morphologically, while they still keep up the spurious 

 ""'— ymopterus montanus var. purpureus, which sometimes 





