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PSYCHE 
[June 
ON SOME UNHE('OUl)EI) OENEUIC AND SPECIEIC NAMES. 
BY A. N. C'AUDEBL, WASHINGTON, 1). C. 
Intentionally or otherwise a larp;e number of generic names j)ro])ose(l by Gistel 
in his INIvsteries of the Eurojiean Inseet-worliD have never been recorded in any of 
our nomenclatures or indices. Most of the genera here propo.sed are not described 
but have one or more described s])ecies cited under them, which gives them a valid 
standing. Duplication of these names is certain, sooner or later, to result in confu- 
sion and to prevent, so far as ])ossible, such duplication some bibliographer, preferably 
a coleoj)terist, should go over the work and list such new or emended generic names 
as .seem eligible for recording. All the valid generic names u.sed by (iistel in this 
work as new or emendations, nearly 250 in number, are coleopterous e.xcept Ccplia- 
lonmntifi and Chcrsomantifi, both ( )rthopterous. These two genera are established 
on page 427 and are from Egyjit. Chfr.tomanth bears no generic description but 
the single included species, piefa, is liriefly defined as “antennis crassis; alis inferi- 
oribus ba.si adastis.” CephalomnDtix is described at some length and under it are 
listed two new species, the first, nfiticn, defined as “3" lang; hellbrann” and the 
second, rjracilix, defined as “itluschelbraun ” and donlitfully referred to as a variety 
of the first. A third species, viriiUpcmii,s, is included but, being undescribed except 
as characterized by the s})cciflc name itself, I comsider it a nomen nudum. These 
two genera of ( Jrthoptera are certainly well estalrlished and should be recorded. 
Besides Ccphalomaniix and Chemmantis and their included spi'cies there are 
.several other s])ecies of ( )rthoptera, as well as a number of species of other orders, 
here defined for the first time. 
In Orthoptera the following 
versa! Catalogue.^ 
new species are not found in Kirby’s 
recent Uni- 
Blatta pellucida 
]>. 427. 
Mantis cinerea 
p. 427. 
” sphaerica 
427. 
” dilaticollis 
427. 
jiallida 
427. 
” maculipennis 
427. 
elongata 
427. 
Eorficula bicolor 
427. 
” lata 
427. 
” api calls 
428. 
” hemialata 
427. 
d'ruxalis pharaonica 
428. 
Acry( limn scutellat nm 
427. 
Grvllus reticulatus 
428. 
” adumbratum 
427. 
” assimilis 
428. 
Tettix scalirata 
427. 
” nigrofasciatus 
428- 
Locusta oculata 
427. 
Gryllotalpa gracilis 
428. 
’“Die Mysterieii der europaischen Inscctenwelt.” Prof. Dr. Johannes Gistel. Kenipteii. 1856. 12nio, 
pp. 12 and 532. 
2“A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoplcra. ” by W. F. Kirby. London, 8vo. vol. i.1904; vol. i. 1905; 
vol. iii. not yet published. 
