publication of " Jurinean " Genera of Hyynenoptera. 347 



unsigned, and takes care to describe kimself vaguely as 

 " a German naturalist," whereas he gives the greatest 

 possible prominence to the name of Jurine, and pays him 

 the highest compliment he can by representing him as 

 an able new aide-de-camp of the illustrious Fabricius. 



Then once more he brings out a new instalment of Fn. 

 Ins. Germ, containing several Figures contributed by and 

 attributed to Jurine ; mentions him repeatedly as authority 

 for habitats, etc. ; figures certain Jurinean sjjecies with 

 Jurine's name attached, and even shps in a few Generic 

 Jurinean names (once at least quite erroneously) in his 

 Synonymy, while retaining Fabrician names on the corre- 

 sponding Plates. He does not call these Jurinean Genera 

 " inedit " (by which formula he denotes in all his works 

 unpublished names of genera or species), because they had 

 already been published at Erlangen ! 



{d) Three years pass during which the Fn. Ins. Germ, is 

 again suspended. In the last of them Fabricius brings out 

 (1804) his Piezatorum. Panzer girds himself again and 

 brings out (1805) a new instalment of Fn. Ins. Germ., at 

 last using Jurinean names quite freely, even on the Plates, 

 sometimes even where other names were employed for the 

 same Genera in the Piezatorum. We suspect that this 

 was accidental. Fabricius himself had introduced certain 

 Jurinean Generic names into the Piezatorum, and Panzer 

 may not have realised that he had rejected others, and 

 thought that the new nomenclature as a whole had received 

 Fabricius's imjmmatur. [Or perhaps the Plates were en- 

 graved before the Piezatorum reached Panzer, and it was too 

 late to alter them ; even as Jurine had to explain in Nouvelle 

 Methode (1807) that he was obhged to leave certain names 

 on the Plates, simply because the latter had been engraved 

 long ago and could not now be altered.] 



(e) Next year (1806) again no i'^w. Ins. Germ., but instead 

 of it Panzer's first serious attempt to grasp and compare the 

 nomenclature of Jurine and Fabricius (the latter as 

 amended in the Piezatorum). This took the form of two 

 small Volumes printed in Nuremberg, and entitled Kritische 

 Revision der Insektenfauna Deutschlands — suggesting that 

 it was meant inter alia as a sort of Guide-book to accompany 

 the Plates, etc., of Fn. Ins. Germ. This title sufficiently 

 describes its first Volume, which deals with Coleoptera. 

 But Vol. 2 is devoted to Hymenoptera, and this Volume 

 has an alternative title, which shows that Panzer had more 



