1876.] 299 [Scudder. 



(1839) for the same species, but does not seem to have been 

 used since. Dohrn refers to neither genus nor species. 



SPARATTA. 



1839. Serv., Orth., 51: the genus is founded on pelvimetra (from 

 Brazil). Other species have been added by Stal and Dohrn, 

 all from tropical S. America. 



SPONGOPHORA. 



1831. Serv., Ann. Sc. !Nat., xxn, 31 [SpongiphoraJ: proposes the 



name for croceipennis from Brazil. 

 1839. Serv., Orth., 29: supplants the name by that of Psalidophora, 

 but, as we have remarked under that caption, for insufficient 

 reasons. Guerin (Iconogr. Regne Anim., Ins. 326) referring to 

 the very page where Serville explains his change, remarks that 

 Serville altered the name because all Forficularise bore a pad 

 between the claws ! See Psalidophora. 

 1846. Agassiz, Nom. Zool., 319: proposes the more correct spelling 

 Spongophora, adopted by me in 1862. 

 This group, under the name Psalidophora, has been used by nearly 

 every author that has treated of the Forficularians and in the same 

 sense. All the known species, with a single exception, come from 

 the temperate and tropical parts of America; S. quadrimaculata from 

 temperate S. Africa. I can find no points of generic distinction be- 

 tween a fragmentary specimen of this species and the common S. 

 brunneipennis of the U. States. 



TAGALINA. 



1863. Dohrn, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiv, 44: proposes this name for 

 two species, Semperi (from Luzon) and grandiventris Blanch. 

 Grandiventris, as the older species, may be taken as the type. The 

 genus is confined to the Australasian islands. The name is unfortu- 

 nately chosen from its close resemblance to Tagalis (Stal, Hem., 

 1860.) 



THERMASTRIS. 



1863. Dohrn, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiv, 61: proposed for brasiliensis 

 Gray and Saussurei Dohrn, both formerly placed under Pygidi- 

 crana; two other species have since been added by myself. Bra- 



