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regarded the genus distinct pending further study of the New Zealand and Aus- 

 tralian species. They suggested Monaonidiella MacGillivray as its nearest genus. 



Aspidioproctus Sasscer, 1912, U.S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 

 16 : 83. 

 A lapsus for Aspidoproctus Newstead. 



Aspidiotes Bouche, 1844, Stettin. Ent. Ztg. 5 : 294. 

 A lapsus for Aspidiotus Bouche. 



Aspidiotus Bouche, 1833, Naturgeschichte der Schadlichen und Niitz- 

 lichen Garten Insekten : 52 ; 1834, Naturgeschichte der Insekten, p. 9. 



type-spectes : Aspidiotus nerii Bouche, 1833, by subsequent designation of 

 Leonardi, 1897: 285. 



Ferris, 1941e : 39, reviewed this genus, attempted to list and, where indicated 

 by current ideas, to reassign all species that had ever been placed in the genus. 

 He restricted the inclusions to a comparatively few species. Subsequently he, 

 1946 : 42-44, added supplementary notes to his previous review. 



In post-Fernald Catalogue, 1903b, literature involving the type-species of 

 Aspidiotus, this has been presented consistently, except for Ferris, 1941e, as 

 "A. hederae (Vallot)" or as "A. nerii Bouche=A. liederae (Vail.)." So far as 

 we have been able to ascertain, the name "C. hederae "Vallot 1829" is a nomencla- 

 torial artifact that did not exist prior to presentation in Signoret, 1868 : 513, 856. 

 The name is not presented in Vallot, 1829, where only one scientific name, Coccus 

 mesemdryanthemi Vallot, appears, and a search through other volumes of the 

 "Mem. Acad. Dijon" has produced no other paper in which hederae is proposed 

 by Vallot. We know of no recent critical review of the question of the identity 

 of Aspidiotus hederae as described by Signoret, 1869: 122, and Aspidiotus nerii 

 Bouche, as this has been interpreted since its original description. The first hint 

 of synonymy appears to be the suggestion of the possibility by Cockerell, 1894, 

 Insect Life 6 : 327, and 1894w : 211. The first flat assignment of nerii in syn- 

 onymy under hederae appears to have been made by Leonardi, 1898c : 71, where 

 Signoret's "C hederae Vail." is also converted into Chermes hederae Vallot, 1829. 

 This was accepted in the Fernald Catalogue, 1903b, and apparently universally 

 thereafter, except for Ferris, 1941e : 39, who said, "type nerii which is supposed 

 to be hederae." There are so many references to Aspidiotus hederae in the litera- 

 ture, both as a valid species and as the proper name for the coccid which Bouche' 

 called nerii — we have records of around 1,000 such citations — that we hesitate 

 to suggest any disruption of the existing stability. However, if priority is to 

 stand as one of the foundation stones of zoological nomenclature, it appears to us 

 that this is one instance in which it is necessary to apply its requirements, and 

 to accept the name nerii for the type of Aspidiotus. 



Aspidistus Cockerell, 1899, New York Ent. Soc. Jour. 6 : 258-259. 

 A lapsus for Aspidiotus Bouche. 



Aspidites Berlese and Leonardi, 1896, Eiv. di Patol. Veg. 4 : 349-350. 



type-species : Aspidiotus rapax Comstock, 1881 (A. camelliae Sign. ?), by 

 original designation. 



This name was preoccupied in Reptilia, 1877, and in Mollusca, 1895, according 

 to Neave, 1939, Nomen. Zool. I: 319. Cockerell, 1897 (in Leonardi, 1897a), 



