Drptera: Nemocera vera. N.anomala and Eremochacta. 450 



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p. 417. The motto borrowed from Scopoli. Fabriciiis 

 (174.5—1810) was not friendlj- to bis predecessor Scopoli (1723 — 1788; 

 both reached tbe same age: 65). The fornier seems to have been a 

 sort of pedant; Scopoli was an enthusiastic friend of nature and 

 knew how to iise bis eyes (although he lost tbem before bis death). 

 The following passage in the Preface of the „Philosophia Entomologica" 

 1778 is evidently directed against the passage from Scopoli which 

 I have prefixed as a motto to this paper: „Entomologis veris strenue 

 „commendo: characteres omnes iisdem semper partibus desumendos. 

 „Regula enim hac haud observata chaos omnino erit res entomolo- 

 „gica." — In the letterpress of the „Philosophia" there are many 

 hits against Scopoli: pag. 124, § 5, 6; pag. 126, § 8, 9; pag. 128, 

 § 12 (the latter is rather comical: „Erroneae ideo sunt omnes dif- 

 „ferentiae, quae ab odore desumuntur: Cerambyx moschatus, elytra 

 „viridia; odor moschi, Scopoli; pag. 115, two generic names propo- 

 „sed by Scopoli areblamed: Anthrax ^co^i)., Era x Scoi^. „nauseosa, 

 „quae nescio quid insneti produnt". P. 114: „Scopoli mutavit Lin- 

 „naei Asilus in Erax, Empis in Asilus, et Conops in Eriipis, inde 

 „necessario oritur confusio, quum jani ideam aliorum insectorum cum 

 his nominibus combinare soleamus". And in spite of this reproach, 

 Fabricius allowed himself exactly similar changes, for instance when 

 he called Bibio — Hirtea, while Scopoli had selected this name 

 for a Stratiomyia. — Scopoli was decidedly the better head of the 

 two. „Scopoli's Arbeiten sind so vortrefflich, dass es niclit begreif- 

 lich ist, warum denselben von neueren Dipterologcn (Linne, Fa- 

 bricius, Rossi und die älteren Autoren berücksichtigten Scopoli, 

 wenn auch nicht immer nach voller Gebühr) so wenig Aufmerksam- 

 keit geschenkt worden ist Scopoli's Besclireibungen sind 



meistens sehr vollständig und genau, ja ohne Bedenken denen des 

 Fabricius vorzuziehen" (Schiner, Scriptores austriaci rerum dip- 

 terologicarum; Verb. Zool. Bot. Ver. 1856). I am glad to take ad- 

 vantage of this opportunity to recall the name of Scopoli, who 

 maintaiued against Fabricius the truc principles of a natural Classi- 

 fication. 



p. 422. „Palpi generally 4-, or 5-jointcd, pendulous etc. 



The palpi of Culex, Anopheles and Aedes, even when long, arc 

 stout and stitf and therefore not pendulous. But the palpi of the 

 vei'y ncxt gcncra(' Core^/Art;. Mocldovya:) are pendulous. Atrophied.short 

 l)alpi likc those of Ceroplatus (Winnertz, Tab. XIX, 7) and 



