OEIGIN OF THE NAME CHERMES OR KERMES. 9 



5. That the majority o£ workers at the Spruce gall-insects have retained 

 the Linnsean name of Chermes, and at the same time Coccid authorities 

 have naturally continued to use the name Kermes for the insect which 

 had popularly been so called from early times. 



It would certainly have saved infinite trouble had one of the earlier names 

 given to the Spruce gall-insects been generally accepted, but in view of the 

 wide acceptance which both Chermes and Kermes have now obtained, any 

 alteration in the name of either genus at this hour of the day would only 

 make " confusion worse confounded/^ 



References. 



(1) KiRKALDY, Gr. W., " Bibliographical and Nomenclatorial Notes on the 

 Hemiptera.''' Entomologist, vol. xxxvii. No. 497, p. 255. 



(2 a) Dioscoeides, Pedanios, Opera, interpretatione J. A. Saraceni, Lib. IV. 

 48, p. 260. 



{2h) Pliny, C, Hist. Nat., Lib. 9, cap. 41 ; Lib. 16, cap. 8 ; Lib. 22, cap. 2 ; 

 Lib. 24, cap. 4. 



(3) Encyc. Brit. vol. xiv. p. 49. See also Beckmann's Hist, of Inventions, 



&c., translated by Johnston, 4th ed. vol. i. pp. 385-404. 



(4) LiNN^us, C, Syst. Nat. 2nd ed., 1740 (Stockholmise). 



(5) Syst. Nat. 7th ed., 1748 (Lipsiee). 9th ed., 1756. 10th ed., 



1758. 



(6) Fauna Suecica, Ist ed., 1746, pp. 214-220. Ed. altera, 1761, 



pp. 262-266. 



(7) Olandska och Gothlandska Resa. Stockholm, 1745, p. 180. 



(For help in translating the passage I am indebted to Mr. L. A. 

 Boodle, F.L.S.) 



(8) GrEOFFROY, Hist. Abregee des Insectes, T. i. pp. 482-509. Paris, 1764. 



(9) MtJLLER, 0. F., Zool. Dan. Prod. pp. 109-10. Havnise, 1776. 



(10) BoiTARD, P., Manuel d'Entomol. vol. ii. pp. 171-2. 



(11) CocKERELL, T. D. A., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, p. 269 (1899). 



(12) Newstead, R., Monograph Brit. Coccidse (Ray Soc), vol. ii. p. 138. 



(13) Hartig, T., Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte der Forst-Wissenschaft 



und forstlichen Naturkunde in Jahre 1836-7 (Berlin, 1837), pp. 643-8. 

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