220 THE SCOLYTID BEETLES. 



Limiseus (1767) failed to mention the genus or to refer to Geoffrey, 

 Miiller, or Schaeff er. 



Fabriciiis (1775, p. 59) recognized tlie species described by Geoffrey 

 and redescribed it under the name Bostrichus scolytus, with the cita- 

 tion "Geoff. Ins. 1-310, [No.] 1, Tab. 5, fig. 5, Mai." Tims Fabricius 

 recognized the species indicated by Geoffroy on page 310, but did not 

 refer it to the genus described on page 309 under the name Scolytus 

 because he (Fabricius) evidently considered it synonymous with Bos- 

 trichus. Consequently, the name proposed by Geoffroy for the genus 

 should stand with Bostrichus scolytus (Fab.) as the type. 



Sulzer (1776, Th. 1, p. 21; Th. II, Tab. II, f. 13k), under the name 

 Dermestes scolytus, described and figured the species indicated by 

 Schaeff er, 1766. 



Miiller (1776, p. 57) published a description under the name Scoly- 

 tus punctatus but referred it doubtfully to Geoffroy' s figures. 



Goeze (1777, p. 143), under the name "Dermestes scolytus Geof- 

 froi," cited Bostrichus scolytus Fab. (1775), Scolytus Geoff. (1762), 

 and Scolytus punctatus MiiJl. (1776). Goeze evidently did not men- 

 tion "Geoffroi" as a specific name but merely to indicate that 

 Geoffroy was the author of or authority for the name Scolytus. 



Linnaeus (1788, 1793, p. 1602) recognized Bostriclius scolytus Fab. 

 and cited Fabricius, 1787, Geoffroy, 1762, Sulzer, 1776, and Schaeffer, 

 1766. 



Herbst (1793, p. 124) described the genus Eccoptogaster with 

 Bostrichus scolytus Fab. as the type. 



Olivier (1795, No. 78, p. 5, PL I, fig. 4 a, b, c) adopted the name 

 Scolytus for the genus and cited Geoffroy, 1762, and Fabricius, 1775, 

 but substituted for the species the name destructor in the place of 

 Scolytus Fab., evidently concluding, as other contemporary writers 

 did, that the generic and specific names could not be the same. In 

 fact this opinion evidently influenced the action of Fabricius, Miiller, 

 Herbst, and others. 



Curtis (1824, p. 43) designated the type of the genus Scolytus as 

 Bostrichus scolytus Fab. 



Genus IPS De Geer. 



There appears to be no room for doubt that the genus Ips of De 

 Geer (1775, p. 190), with Dermestes typographus Linn., 1758, as the 

 type, has priority over Ips of Fabricius (1776, p. 23), 



Genus TOMICUS Latreille. 



Latreille (1802, p. 203) described the genus Tomicus with Hyle- 

 sinus piniperda Fab. (1801, p. 392) as the type, but H. piniperda of 

 Fabricius is, as cited by him (1801, p. 392), the same as Bostrichus 

 piniperda (L.) Fab. (1775, p. 60; 1792, p. 367) and Dermestes pini- 



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