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Phyllomorpha to Craspedium, from the neuter Greek xpaco7edor, 
thus restoring the specific name Phyllomorphus to P. Latreillii. 
Without, however, entering into the question of the propriety of 
giving the name in the neuter, because the Greek derivative is also 
neuter, M. Rambur’s name cannot be adopted, being already used 
by M. Macquart for a fine genus of Diptera, allied to Asilus *. 
(Diptéres Exot. tom. 1, part. 2, p. 32.) Without also desiring to 
uphold the nomenclature of genera taken from the names of species, 
a custom which has been carried to too great an extent, it appears 
to me that, as in this case, where the name given to a species 
expresses a generic character (and no name could be devised for 
these insects more expressive than Phyllomorpha) and not a specific 
one, and where there can be no possibility of confusion of idea as 
to the insect intended by the new specific name proposed for the 
insect (as by giving the name of Latreillii to Latreille’s species), we 
may adopt the principle employed by Laporte in naming this genus. 
S. S. Saunders, Esq., has captured one of the species of the 2nd 
section of this genus, under stones on a mountain near Yanina, in 
Albania, and the Rev. F. W. Hope has obtained specimens of Ph. 
algirica, two of which (¢ and ¢) are very pale grey, slightly marked 
with dark brown, without any tinge of red, whilst another is some- 
what larger and of a duller colour, with dark red markings. I do 
not, however, perceive any other absolute specific distinctions 
between them. 
GENERA INSECTORUM ICONIBUS ILLUSTRAVIT ET DESCRIPSIT HERMANNUS 
Burmeister. Nos. 1 to 7, large 8vo, Berlin. 
Tuts work mostly amply answers to its title. It isin fact a more 
complete illustration of the genera which are given in it, than has 
been given in any previous work—the various organs ‘and parts of 
the body being elaborately detailed. The early numbers were 
entirely devoted to the Homopterous insects, but in the recent ones 
the selection has been more miscellaneous. The genera of Homo- 
ptera represented are the following :—Lystra (L. auricoma, Burm. 
figured), a remarkable species from Mexico, with the white floccose 
matter at the extremity of the body produced into a great number 
* In his plate 8, M. Macquart had named this genus Blepharis, which he changed in his 
text to Craspedia. The typical species is Asilus coriarius of Weidemann. The second 
species, Crasp, Audouinii, is identical with the inseet which I described and figured in Jardine’s 
Nat. Library, Entomol., vol. 1, p. 329, pl. 35, fig. I, under the name of Asilus (Blepharotes) 
abdominalis. When I described the species I had only seen males of this and females 
of A. coriarius, and considered that these might prove to be the sexes of one species; I am 
now, however, acquainted with the sexes of both. 
