158 Mr. H. E. Andrewes’ Notes on Synonymy 
Nat. Hist. (9), iii, 1919, 470), and, as not infrequently 
happens when the type of a species is a matter of conjecture, 
there has been a waste of paper and ink. 
The species was described from specimens taken by 
Schousboe in Mauretania and by Daldorff in “ India 
Orientali” (Coll. Sehestedt), I found at Copenhagen two 
‘“ Mauretanian ’’ specimens, one of them indicated (though 
not by Fabricius) as the type, but there was no Indian 
specimen. At Kiel, on the other hand, Dr. Reibisch found, 
under the genus Galerita, a single specimen of a Siagona, 
bearing the name depressa in Fabricius’ handwriting, but 
without indication either of the locality from which it came, 
or of the name of the collector. 'The Copenhagen specimens 
I recognised as being identical with S. dejeant Ramb. (or 
what passes as that species, for I have not seen the type), 
an insect nearly twice as long as, and quite different in 
shape from S. europea Dej. Mr. Henriksen has kindly 
compared with the ‘“‘type”’ a specimen which I sent to 
him, and finds it to agree exactly. Dr. Reibisch kindly 
sent me the Kiel example to examine, and I find it to be 
the same species as Chaudoir’s S. germana; I have in my 
collection a defective example of this species, which I 
compared with Chaudoir’s type, and, although this does 
not entirely agree with the Kiel specimen, the resemblance 
is so Close as to leave no doubt in my mind that they belong 
to the same species. I think Chaudoir’s S. punctatissima 
is also identical with them. 
It is not clear from the Fabrician description whether or 
not both the “ Mauretanian ”’ and Indian specimens were 
in Sehestedt’s collection, but, judging by the above facts, 
it seems almost certain that the former only belonged to 
him, the Indian example being in Fabricius’ own collec- 
tion. Two further observations may be made, one that 
in his descriptions—at least in such as I have studied— 
Fabricius does not mention his own collection, and the 
other, that three years later in Syst. Eleuth. (i, 1801, 215) 
no mention is made under Galerita depressa of the ‘ Maure- 
tanian”” specimens, and the only reference is “ India 
Orientali, Daldorff.” 
In these circumstances the small Mediterranean species 
will retain Dejean’s name of S. ewropea, and for the small 
Indian one, now known as S. depressa, I propose the new 
name of S. fabriciit, As Rambur’s S. dejeani (1838) was 
described long before Chaudoir’s S. germana (1876), Ram- 
