538 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [VolY. 



Pteroptochidae. 



1832. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Isid. Rliinomie. RMnomya. Is. Geoff. < Cruer. Mag. 

 de Zool., 2<= s^r., aun^e 1832, classe ii, Oiseaux, notice iii, pi. iii. 

 RMnomya lanceolata d'Orb. et Isid. G-eoffi"., gen. sp. n. 



1836. Gould, J. [Scytalopus (g. n.)_ fuscus, S. albogiilaris, spp. nn.] <P. Z. S., 



Aug. 9, 1836, pp. 89, 90. 



The genus and species are established in an untitled paper, which also describes certain 

 Troglodytidce. 



1837. Gould, J. [On Scytalopus.] <^Lond. and Edinb. Philos. Joiirn., x, 1837, p. 295. 



From P. Z. S., Aug. 9, 1836, pp. 89, 90, q. v. 



1838. Gould, J. [Uebcr die Gattung Scytalopus.] < Oken^s Isis, Bd. xxxi, 1838, pp. 



199, 200. 

 Aus den P. Z. S., 1836, pp. 89, 90, q. v. 



1841. Lesson, R. P. Revision des Especes d'Oiseaux du Genre Megalonyx. < Actes 



Soc. Linn, de Bordeaux, xii, 1841, pp. 187-197. 

 Pas vu moi-niemo : le titre tir6 de la Bibl. do Carus & Engel. 



1842. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Isid. [RMnomya lanceolata.] < Ofcew's /sis, Bd. xxxv, 



1842, p. 51. 

 Aus GuSr. Mag. de Zool., Bd. ii, 1832. 

 1844. Lafresnaye, [F.] de. G. Merulaxis. Lesson. (Fam. Formicaridte. — S.-Fam. 

 Rhinominpe.) <^Guer. Mag. de Zool., 2^ s6r., annde 1844, Oiseanx, pp. 1-6, 

 pi. 53. y 



PI. 53, Merulaxis orthonyx Lafr., E. Z., 1843, p. 131. 

 1851. [Jardine, W.] Scytalopus, Gould, 1836. <^Jard. Contrih. Oni., 1851, pp. 115- 

 118, pll. Ixxvi-lxxviii. 



Descriptions of, and remarks on, 4 spp. PI. Ixxvi, f. 1, -S'. undulatus ; f. 2, S. albiventris. 

 PI. Ixxvii, S. fuscus. PI. Ixxviii, S. albogularis. 

 1851. Lafresnaye, [F.] de. Observations on the Genus Scytalopus. <^Jard. Con- 

 trib. Oni., 1851, pp. 14-5-1.50. 

 17 spp., referred to the genus Merulaxis Less. M. fuscoides, p. 149. sp. n. 

 1857. Landbeck, L. Pteroptocbos albifrons n. sp. <^Areh.f. Naturg., 1857, (1), pp. 

 273-275. 



1864. Philippi, R. A., and Landbeck, L. [Pteroptocbus castaneus, sp. u.] <^Anal. 



Univ. CMIe, xxv., Sept., 1864, p. 408. 

 A separate sub-head of a paper of much more extended scope. 



1865. Philippi, R. A., and Landbeck, L. [Pteroptocbos castaneus.] <^Arch.f. Na- 



turg., 1861, (1), p. 56. 



A separate sub-head of a paper of much more extended scope. The orig. descr. is in Anal. 

 Univ. Chile, xxv, 1864, p. 408. 

 1874. SCLATER, P. L. Oil tbe Neotropical Species of tbe Family Pteroptocbidse. 

 <^IMs, 3d ser., iv, 1874, pp. 189-206, pi. viii. 



History of the group in brief; systematic, synonymatic, diagnostic synopsis, Trith com- 

 ment, of 19 spp., referred to 8 genera; tabular view of their distribution. The pi. repreaenta 

 Rhinocrypta fulva. 



