466 Mr. R. Shelford’s Studies of the Blattide. 
descriptions add nothing to those already published this 
paper will not be quoted below. 
The Thunbergian collection of insects, which in its day 
must have been one of the largest in Europe, is still at 
Uppsala and is very much as Thunberg left it. Stal 
overhauled the Orthoptera, and though he _ published 
nothing concerning Thunberg’s Blattide, nevertheless 
attached to most of the specimens the names of more 
recent authors. It is quite evident from a study of the 
collection that Thunberg was by no means a “splitter,” 
even if judged by the standard of scientific accuracy of 
his day, and as a result it is frequently the case that more 
than one species in his collection stands under the same 
specific name. ‘To take one example:—under the name 
Liatta grossa stand three species of the genus Monachoda, 
and the question arises, which of these is to be selected as 
the type? Thunberg’s description affords no help. The 
simplest course is to regard that specimen as the type 
which most closely approximates to the description of the 
species drawn up by later authors from specimens which 
they imagined to be identical with Thunberg’s specimen. 
A certain definite species of JMonachoda stands in all 
collections under the name J. grossa Thunb., it is 
recognised presumably not by Thunberg’s description 
but by Serville’s, Brunner’s or that of some other authority; 
since in Thunberg’s own collection there is an example of 
this species, that example, in the absence of all evidence 
to prove the contrary, may be selected as the type of his 
species JZ, grossa. The following is a list of the species 
described by Thunberg, taken in the order of their 
publication. 
In the first column the Thunbergian name is given, in 
the second the correct name of the species, and in the 
third column some synonyms :— 
