406 Rev. F. D. Morice and J. H. Durrant on the 



believe that Entomologists will generally be wise, if they 

 are content to keep their own new names as free as 

 possible from glaring eccentricities (e. g. the reckless com- 

 bining in one word of Greek and Latin elements and 

 inflexions), while accepting names published by older 

 authors — ^unless in the case of obvious misprints— in the 

 forms (whether philologically correct or otherwise) 

 which were given to them when they first appeared in 

 scientific literature from 1758 onwards.] 



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111-21. Alysson Jrn. Erl. Litt-Ztg. 1. 164. 

 " Gen. 21 Alysson — Sphex fuscata. Pompilus spinosus Panzer. 

 Pompilus tumidus Panzer." 



ALYSSON Jrn. (1801) 



= -fALY SON Jrn. (1807). 



Type: Pompilus spinosus Pzr. (Pzr. 1806; Jrn. 1807; Crt. 1836; 

 Wstwd. 1840). 



Alysson Jrn. Erl. Litt-Ztg. 1. 164 no. 21 (1801)— [1. spinosus 

 Pzr. (=*fascata {nee F.] Pzr., Jrn.; = spinosus Pzr., Jrn.) and 

 2. tumidus Pzr.]; Pzr. Krit. Rev. Ins. Deutsch. 2. 169-71 (1806) 

 [Type: spinosus Pzr. (= *fuscafa [nee F.] Pzr. 51*3; = ^bimaculata 

 Pzr. 51 '4$ ; = spinosus Pzr. 80*17 (^) — tumidus Pzr. 81*15, removed 

 to MeUinus (Pzr. 1. c. 169)]. '\Alyson Jrn. Nouv. Moth. Hym. 

 195-6 no. 21 Pf. 4*21, 10*21 (1807)— [Type : spinosus Pzr., Jrn. 

 ( = Xfucata Jrn.)- — tumidus Pzr. removed to Arpadus (Jrn. I.e. 194)] ; 

 F-G.' K. & K. MT. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. 6. 394 (1882); Ltr. Gn. 

 Crust-Ins. 4. 86-7 no. 504 (1809): Cons-Gen. Crust-Ins. 325, 438 

 no. 494 (1810); Crt. Br. Ent. 13. expl. PI. 584 (1836)— [Type: 

 spinosus Pzr. {= %himaculatus Pzr.; Crt.)]; Wstwd. 8yn. Gn. Br. 

 Ins. 80 (1840)— [Type: spinoSUS Pzr. Jrn.]. 



In the Erlangen List (1801) Jurine enumerates under 

 Alysson three exponents— -/S^^ex fuscata, Pompilus spinosus 

 Pzr. and Pompilus tumidus Pzr. Li 1806, Panzer (Krit. 

 Rev. 169-71) removed tumidus Pzr. to MeUinus, restricting 

 Alysson to fuscatus Pzr. and spinosus Pzr., and adding 

 bimaculatus Vzx.^uscatus Pzr. and bimaculaius Pzr. are 

 synonyms of spinosus Pzr. which thus became the Type. 



In the Nouv. Meth. Hym., Jurine also removed tumidus 

 from Alysson {'\Alyson) referring it to Astatus (p. 194) ; 

 he united bimacidata Pzr. (51*4, $) and spinosa Pzr. (80. 

 17 (^) as sexes of the same species; and stated that he 

 only knew fuscata Pzr. {-ffucata Jrn.) from Panzer's figure 

 (51. 3), " et que les cellules des ailes soient mal rendues 

 dans le dessin qu'il en a donn6, je placerais neanmoins cet 



