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The final attempt, by Tjeder (1959), to validate the name Sphaero- 
berothinae (by the designation of Nosy bus as the type genus) is 
contrary to the Rules. 
It is not possible to resurrect this name for a valid family-group 
taxon and it is therefore necessary to propose the new name Nosybinae 
for the taxon to which the name Sphaeroberothinae has previously 
been applied. 
Kruger, Navas, Banks and Tjeder have placed the additional 
genera Cycloberotha, Costachillea , Sphaeroberotha , and Berothella 
in the same suprageneric taxon as Nosy bus. The only unifying feature 
of this assemblage has been the short wings with rounded apices. 
Actually these genera show only a superficial similarity to Nosy bus, 
the first three being rather ordinary berothines, with such typical 
features as well-developed hypocaudae and, in Cycloberotha and Cos- 
tachillea, squamae on the wings of the females. The type species of 
Berothella, B. phantoma Banks, has not been available to us for study. 
The holotype male of the other described species of this genus, B. 
pretiosa Banks, has been examined by us. It is a dilarid, so we have 
provisionally excluded Berothella from the Berothidae pending a study 
of its type species. 4 
Berothinae Handlirsch, 1908 
Berothinae Handlirsch, 1908, Die Fosselen Insekten, p. 42. Type genus (by 
tautonomy) : Bcrotha Walker, 1860. Kruger, 1922, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 
88: 56. Tjeder, 1956, South African Animal Life 6: 293. 
Berothini Banks, 1913, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 39: 211. Navas, 1921, 
Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles 40: 230; 1927, Bull. Soc. R. Ent. d’Egypte 
1926: 206; 1929, Mem. Acad. Cienc. Zaragoza 2: 23, 105. Handschin, 
1935, Rev. Suisse Zool. 42: 700. 
Esferoberotinos, Sphaeroberothinorum Navas, 1930, Broteria 26: 133-135. 
Type genus (by tautonomy) : Sphaeroberotha Navas, 1930. new syn- 
onymy. 
Description . Berothids with head and mouthparts short to very 
short; vertex with lateral tubercles weakly to strongly developed, 
anterior tubercle usually not in evidence, vertex with elongate setae 
which are not necessarily confined to tubercles; head capsule mod- 
erately to strongly inflated behind eyes. Pronotum transverse, lightly 
constructed or elongate and of a more massive construction, always 
4 The holotype $ of B. phantoma is now located in the British Museum. 
At our request, Mr. D. E. Kimmins has examined this specimen and informs 
us that this species also belongs to the Dilaridae, so that Berothella should 
definitely be removed from the Berothidae. 
