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" It seems very much like Amyot's Stactogala, but the latter's 

 description was too short to be able with surety to identify the 

 species in question as such, and the size given, 5-6 m'm., speaks 

 positively against it." He must have either overlooked Fieber's 

 paper of a few years previous, or perhaps not recognized his de- 

 scription, but whatever it was, he made no mention of it at all. 



Fieber in his " Katalog der europaeischen Cicadinen " (p. 11), 

 1872, seems to consider his new genus synonymous with Athy- 

 sanus for he places it right in this genus, in fact, it heads the list, 

 which I do not think of any particular significance. Here he 

 also places Kirschbaum's tamaricis as a synonym of stactogalus. 

 From this time on it has been known in the European literature 

 as Athysanus stactogalus Am. He mentions as synonyms of the 

 genus : — Jassus, Thamnotettix, Opsins, and Limotettix. 



Mayr in his " Tabellen zum Bestimmen der Familien und 

 Gattungen der Cioadinen " (p. 33, No. 69), 1884, follows Fieber 

 in placmg Athysanus stactogalus first on the list, wtih genus 

 Opsins a synonym of genus Athysanus and Jassus in part; he 

 fails to mention or dispose of genus Limotettix, and this is rather 

 disappointing as our stactogalus is very closely related to that 

 group. 



Ferrari in " Bolletino delle Societa Entomologica Italiana " 

 (Vol. 17, p. 289, No. 76), 1885, adds further to its range of dis- 

 tribution by citing a few records of its occurrence in Italy, follow- 

 ing Fieber and Mayr in the use of nomenclature. 



Melichar in "Cicadinen von Mittel Europa " (p. 261), 1896, 

 redescribes it in the German language as did Kirschbaum, and 

 still maintains Amyot as author. 



Ball in Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences 

 (Vol. XII, p. 39, July, 1907) describes it as Eutettix oshorni 

 from three examples, one female and two males, from Galveston, 

 Texas, collected in May by Professor Snow. Evidently no notice 

 of food-plant was taken in this case as none is mentioned. 



Oshanin in his " Katalog der palaearktischen Homopteren " (p, 

 108, No. 4160), 1912, lists it as Athysanus stactogalus Fieb. ; this 

 is the first paper in which I find that Fieber has been credited 

 with authority for the name. He also adds North-Africa and 

 Turkey to its range of distribution and cites tamaricis Kirsch^ 



