publication of " Jurinean " Genera of Hymenoptera. 433 



Pzr. (= Elampus Spin.) and the second a Cleptes Ltr. 

 The Type of Chrysis L. is ignita L. as designated by 

 Blumenbach (1779), Lamarck (1801), Latreille (1802-10), 

 Curtis (1824) and Westwood (1840). 



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III-43. Omalus Jrn. Erl. Litt-Ztg. 1. 164. 



" Gen. 43 Omalus." — [No types — a mere logonym.] 



OMALUS Pzr. (1804) 



= Omalus Jm. (V. 1801) LN. ; = Elampus Spin. (1806) ; 

 ^Ellampus Agassiz, Mocs. 



Type: Omalus aeneus Pzr. (Pzr. 1804). 



Omalus Pzr. [Jrn. Erl. Litt-Ztg. 1. 164 no. 43 (V. 1801) LN.']; 

 Pzr. Fn. Ins. Germ. 85-13 (1804)— [Type: aeneus Pzr.]: 97-17 

 (1806)— [aeneus Pzr. ^ 85-13 (= nitidus Pzr. $ 97-17)]: Krit. 

 Rev. Ins. Deutsch. 2. 95, 103 (1806). Chrysis L. (4. Elampus 

 Spin.) Spin. Ins. Lig. 1. 10-11 (1806) — [aurata L., aenea Pzr., etc.]. 

 Ellampus Mocs. Mon. Chrysid. 63-113 no. 5. sp. 31-98 (1889). 

 Ellampus Spin. (3. Ellampus Mocs.) Mocs. Mon. Chrysid. 82-107 

 sp. 59-92 (1889)— [71 aurata L., 76 aenea Pzr.— The latter should 

 be taken as Type]. 



[wee *Omalus Jrn. Nouv. M6th. Hym. 300-1 no. 43 Pf. 5-43, 

 13-43 {\%m)—cempterus Pzr. (PsiLUS Jrn.) vide no. 63. p. 436]. 



Omalus in the Erlangen List (1801) is a mere logonym, 

 but Panzer, in 1804 (Fn. Ins. Germ. 85-13) gave it status 

 in nomenclature by associating it with a definite species 

 Omalus aeneus Pzr. (a Chrysid), and in 1806 (Fn. Ins. 

 Germ. 97-27) added nitidus Pzr., which is identified as the 

 5 of aeneus Pzr. in Krit. Rev. 



In Nouv. Meth. Hym., Jurine characterised his genus, 

 which was evidently that intended by the mere word 

 " Omalus " of the Erlangen List, figuring a species under 

 the name fuscicornis Jrn., and mentioning other species, 

 two of which had been figured and described by Panzer 

 as hemipterus F. (77-14) and cenopterus Pzr. (8ri4). 

 Omalus Pzr. {nee Jrn.) has been sunk by all recent 

 authors (Mocsary, R. du Buysson, etc.) as a synonym of 

 Elampus (or Ellampus) Spinola, but it would seem that 

 Omalus Pzr., though based on an error of identification 

 was, notwithstanding, potentially a vahd name, and, 

 being older by a year than Elampus, obtained priority. 



