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and concluded that it is derived from the same Greek source as Eriodes Geoffroy. 

 1829, and is so close to it that it must be rejected for use. He also noted that the 

 type-species had appeared as Ripersia cuneiformis Green in the CockereU, 1899a, 

 Check List. Ferris, 1953a : 404. noting the similarity of life habit of Porococcus 

 CockereU and Erioides offered his opinion that Erioides was a synonym of the 

 former. We consider this doubtful. It has not been confirmed by any other 

 worker. 



Erioidococcus Lindinger, 1943, Ztsehr. der Wien. Ent. Gesell. 28 : 219. 



type- spec ie s : Erioides cuneiformis Green, 1922, by substitution of Erioido- 

 coccus for Erioides Green. 



Lindinger substituted this name for Erioides Green. On the basis of the appli- 

 cation of Article 56(a) of the 1961 Code we consider this action unnecessary. 



Eriopeltis Signoret, 1872, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (ser. 5)1: 429. 



type-species : Coccus festucae Fonscolombe, 1S34, by original designation 

 and monotypy. 



The Fernald Catalogue, 1903b : 145, listed the type-species of this genus as 

 Eriopeltis lichtensteinii Signoret. and under the citations to lichtensteinii cited 

 as a preoccupied first reference ''Eriopeltis festucae Sign, (non Fonsc.)" with 

 page 430 of the reference given above as the place of publication. Subsequent 

 type indications seem to have followed this pattern. We have reviewed Signoret's 

 various comments on genus and included species, and consider that the conclu- 

 sion presented in Fernald is not correct, and that festucae Fonscolombe, as 

 interpreted by Signoret, 1872, is the proper name for the type-species of Eriopeltis. 

 In his first proposal of Eriopeltis. Signoret, 1872 : 429-430, remarked on the fact 

 that the one species he was including forms a complete sac, "a mass of wool, so to 

 speak, in the center of which is found the female . . ." In a later presentation 

 where lichtensteinii was discussed, Signoret, 1S76 : 607, said, "I have always 

 noted that there were two quite distinct types, one showing a sac of curled, woolly 

 thread . . . and the other, on the contrary, a very dense felted sac ... I have 

 believed that it would be well to make a new species of this latter type that we 

 called Eriopeltis lichtensteinii, keeping the name festucae for the species typical 

 of Boyer de Fonscolombe, that we have and that shows the curled woolly sac." 

 Lindinger, 1933a : 77, argued at some length for the use of Eriococcus Targioni- 

 Tozzetti for this Eriopeltis zoological concept but his proposal seems based on his 

 rigid concept that the type-species of a multiple species genus must be the first 

 one listed, so it can be disregarded. This genus is a member of the group of 

 "woolly"' genera belonging to the Coccidae (str.). Borchenius, 1957: 40, 91, 

 placed it in his Filippiinae. 



Erium (Crawford MS) Maskell, 1892, Xew Zeal. Inst. Trans, and 

 Proc. (1891) 24: 35, nomen nudum: CockereU, 1897, Amer. Nat. 

 31 : 590. 



type-species : Dactylopius globosus Maskell, 1S92, by subsequent designation 

 by CockereU and monotypy. 



This combination of generic and author names is offered in Xeave, 1939, Nomen. 

 Zool. II : 288. Fernald, 1903b : 112, credited the genus to Crawford and the 

 type-species to Maskell. Maskell's recording of "Erium globosum." a manuscript 

 name attached to specimens by Crawford, following the description of Dactylopius 

 globosus Maskell, makes Erium a nomen nudum under the negative restrictions of 



