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or — -as Mocsary (1886) and later authors call the species — 

 " niger" is "almost certainly not British" must be with- 

 drawn. In the British collection at South Kensington 

 most of the specimens called niger or troglodyta are satyrus. 

 But among them are a <$ and two $$ from Coll. Stephens 

 which are really troglodyta; and, if Stephens's statements 

 in his Illustrations can be trusted, they are British insects, 

 taken not far from London, perhaps at Hertford. We 

 cannot, however, recognise in any of them the characters 

 of the true niger as figured and described by Harris, and 

 we still see no reason for identifying troglodyta F. with 

 that mysterious species ! 



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 *Ceropales Ltr. 1804 (Type : maculata F.) is clearly 

 invalid, being a homonym of Ceropales Ltr. 1802 

 (Type : quinquecinctus F.). Not on that ground, but 

 to satisfy a supposed requirement of philology, Schulz has 

 proposed emending it to " Ceratopales." As to this it 

 should be remarked — (1) That the name being a homonym, 

 should not be merely " emended" but sunk altogether and 

 another name substituted for it. We have therefore 

 proposed Hypsiceraeus {'Yxpixeoalog) in allusion to the 

 peculiar situation of the antennae in this genus. (2) That 

 in point of fact Schulz is mistaken in thinking the formation 

 " Ceratopales " more correct philologically than Ceropales. 

 As we have noticed several attempts to " emend " other 

 old names on exactly similar grounds, viz. the supposed 

 necessity that the same form should be used in inflecting 

 or " declining " a noun and in compounding it, it may be 

 worth while to examine in some detail the actual practice 

 of Greek writers in this matter. The stem used in " de- 

 clining " xeqch; is no doubt " xeqax-" and this form of the 

 stem may be used in forming a compound, e.g. Aristotle 

 has xegarocpogog, xeoarojdrjg, etc. But we also find xego- 

 fiarr]g in Aristophanes, xeoo-dexog and xeoo-cpogog in Euri- 

 pides, xeqovXxog, (i. e. xeoo-elxog) in Sophocles, and several 

 other forms exactly analogous to " Cero-pales " used by 

 the best writers of antiquity ! Yet another possible com- 

 pound from the same stem would be " Ceraopales " (cf. 

 xegao-tjoog in Homer). And again the analogy of xegao- 

 (poQog, which is used by Euripides and Plato (!), would 

 justify " Ceraspales" The fact, which seems to be very 

 generally unknown, is, that real Greek " compound-" 

 (or " so-called compound-") words were not made as a 



