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4. Pycnogonum nodulosum, Dolirn. 



Pycnogonwn nodulosum, Doliin, (9) p. 203, pi. xvi. figs. 1-3. 

 Bay o£ Naples (DoJirn). 



Family 2. E n d e i d ^. 



Genus 2. Endeis, Philippi, 1843. 

 =Phoxichilus, auct. nee Latreille, and Chilophoxus, Stehhing, 1902. 



The Rev. T. R. R. Stabbing bas in ' Knowledge ' (54*, August 1902, 

 p. 157) introduced certain cbanges in nomenclature which it is necessary to 

 notice ; and as the publication in which these changes are made is not likely 

 to be seen by naturalists, in justice to him I give here his full statement : — 



" Not without some fear of evoking those electric flashes which are ever 

 ready to smite the rash disturbers of long accepted terminology, I must here 

 invite the special attention of naturalists to the new names Chilophoxus and 

 Chilophoxidse and to the cancelling the names Pallenidse and Pseudopallene 

 in favour respectively of Phoxichilidse and Phoxichilus. The last-named 

 genus was instituted by Latreille in the ' Nouveau Dictionnaire d^Histoire 

 Naturelle,' torn. 24. p. 137, as far back as 1804, not as had been stated 

 in 1816. The only species assigned to it was Pycnogonum sjnnipes of 

 0. Fabricius. It is impossible, therefore, to retain Phoxichilus apart from 

 that species. Consequently Pseudopallene, Wilson, 1878, to which both Sars 

 and Meinert refer the above-named P. spinipes of the ' Fauna Grosnlandica,' 

 becomes a synonym of Latreille's far earlier genus, and the family hitherto 

 known as PallenidsR must be henceforward known as Phoxichilidse. All 

 species which have been assigned to Phoxichilus on the ground of a real 

 generic agreement with Montagu's Phalangium spinosum, must now be 

 transferred along with this species to Chilophorus, while Pseudopallene 

 circularis, Goodsir, will find its place in the true Phoxichilus as now 

 reinstated.'" 



Before entering upon Mr. Stebbing's argument let me state that if that 

 argument be considered just, as I believe it to be, Chilophorus is at once a 

 synonym, since there is the genus Endeis of Philippi, the first species given 

 for which is congeneric at least, if not identical, with P. spinosum, Montagu ; 

 the only error in Philippics description is that he mistook the seven-jointed 

 false feet for palpi (Philippi, Archiv f. Naturg. Jahrg. ix. p. 195). 



It is now desirable to examine into the history of the genus Phoxichilus — 

 Latreille (Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. vol. xxiv. 1804, p. 137) ;-^ 

 " 43. Genus Phoxichile, Phoxichilus. Dix pattes, les anterieures beaucoup 

 plus petites et repliers dans le ventre ; mandibules coudees, terminees par une 

 piece en crochet; point de palpes^'; with a reference to Pycnogonum 

 spinipes, 0. Fabr. 



