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IV. Superfamily ELENCHOIDEA Pierce, 1908. 

 8. Family Elenchid^e Pierce, 1908. 



32. Genus Elenchus Curtis, 1831. 



1. walkeri Curtis, 1829 (type); Great Britain. 



2. tenuicornis Kirby, 1815; England. 



3. templetonii West wood, 1835; Mauritius. 



33. Genus Elenchoides Pierce. 



1. perlcinsi Pierce (type); Fiji. 



34. Genus Mecynocera Pierce, 1908. 



1. hcebelei Pierce, 1908 (type); Ohio. 



35. Genus Pentagrammaphila Pierce. 



1. uhleri Pierce (type) ; Dacota. 



36. Genus Deinelenchus Perkins, 1905. 



1. australensis Perkins, 1905 (type); Queensland. 



37. Genus Colacina Westwood, 1877. 



1. insidiator West-wood, 1877 (type); Borneo. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF STREPSIPTERA. 

 strepsiptera kirby redescribed. 



Xirby, 1813; Klug, 1814; Germar, 1817; MacLeay, 1821; IIoeven, 1828; Steph- 

 ens, 1829; Pickering, 1835; Westwood, 1835; Templeton, 1838; Westwood, 1840; 

 Siebold, 1843; Newport, 1845, 1847; Hoeven, 1850; Saunders, 1850; Newport, 

 1851; Siebold, 1853; Saunders, 1853; Joly, 1858; Westwood, 1861; Schaum, 1864; 

 Maklin, 1867; Blanchard, 1868; Kraatz, 1870; Siebold, 1870; Muller, 1872; Riley, 

 1873; Westwood, 1877; Carus, 1879-1899; Brandt, 1879, 1882; Friese, 1883; Harris, 

 1884; Kolbe, 1884-86; Muller, 1887; Claus, 1888; Mayer, 1888-1894; Nassonow, 

 1892, 1893; Meinert, 1896; Janet, 1897; Nassonow, 1897; Sharp, 1899, 1900-1905; 

 Buysson, 1903; Holmgren, 1903; Handlirsch, 1903, 1904; Boerner, 1904; Clark, 

 1904; Henneguy, 1904; Klapalek, 1904; Shipley, 1904; Pierce, 1908. 



Name derived from orpefccv (oxpktyai) to twist, -\-x-zp6i>, a wing=twisted wings. 



SYNONYMY. 



Xenos, 1749 (a genus next to Ichneumon), Rossi, 1790, 1793. 



Phihiromyse, 1807 (Tribe III, Diptera), Latreille, 1807. 



Stylopidx, 1813 (a family in Coleoptera, Heteromera); Stephens, 1829; Westwood, 

 1839; Schaum, 1862; Crotch, 1863; Dallas, 1867, 1868; Packard, 1870, 1872; Sharp, 

 1871; Saunders, 1871; Rye, 1871-1879; Ebell, 1872; Saunders, 1877; Austin, 1882; 

 LeConte and Horn, 1883; W. F. Kirby, 1883-84; Henshaw, 1885; J. B. Smith, 

 1885; Scudder, 1885, 1886; Sharp, 1887-1894; Scudder, 1890; J. B. Smith, 1890; 

 Schwarz, 1891; Dale, 1892; Comstock, 1895; J. B. Smith, 1899; Dury, 1902; Green, 

 1902; Brues, 1903; Pierce, 1904; Brubs, 1905; Perkins, 1905; Friese, 1906; Dury, 

 1906. (Kirby, 1813, used "Stylopidae" as the base family of Strepsiptera.) 



Rhipidoptera, 1816 (a family in Diptera), Lamarck, 1816, 1835; Menge, 1866. 



Rhipiptera, 1817 (an order), Latreille, 1817; Guerin-Meneville, 1829-1838; 

 Latreille, 1836; Erichson, 1841; Latrielle, 1845; Duval, 1857; Laboulbene, 

 1876; Acloque, 1897. 



Rhiphiptera, 1817 (a mistake for Rhipiptera), Leach, 1817, 1819. 



Strepsiptera, 1827 (a family, Neuroptera Trichoptera), Gegenbaur, 1827. 



Stylopidx, 1840 (a family, Neuroptera, between Forficulidse and Phryganeidse), 

 Shuckard, 1840. 



Stylopites, 1847 (a tribe, Coleoptera), Newman, 1845, 1847, 1850; Smith, 1850; 

 Schaum, 1852. 



Stylopides, 1859 (a family, Coleoptera), Lacordaire, 1859, 



