140 
Psyche 
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generis ” ; no reason whatsoever was presented by Donisthorpe to 
justify its placement in P oner a, and no satisfactory diagnostic charac- 
ters are given in his figure or description. P. hendersoni Cockerell 
has been shown by Carpenter (1930) to be referable to the extinct 
genus Protazteca. The recent Australian species, Hypoponera scitula 
(Clark) (new combination from Ponera ) } was listed as 
a tertiary fossil from Allendale, Victoria, under the name Ponera 
scitula, by Oke (1957). I have not seen the specimens involved, but 
since they were determined by Clark, the assignment is presumably 
trustworthy. 
Fossil names and their nomenclatural status. 
According to the principle of homonomy certain of the specific 
names given above are no longer available for use in Ponera. The 
eleven names assigned by Heer in 1849 (see fist* p. 138), and the 
ten species, excluding brodeij assigned by subsequent authors and 
listed above on page 139 are in this category, as is the specific name 
veneraria Heer (1865). 
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