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separate genus, as W.M. Wheeler realized in 1915, when he applied 
a new generic name in the combination Sicelomyrmex corniger. 
Unfortunately, the new genus name was one of several misspelled in 
this German wartime publication, which Wheeler apparently did 
not see in proof. He published the name in the emended form 
Sicilomyrmex in 1926, and again in 1928, but by 1929 he had 
reverted, perhaps absent-mindedly, to the spelling Sicelomyrmex, 
and even suggested for it a new tribe, Sicelomyrmicini. The tribal 
name was in any case improperly coined, since the stem involved is 
myrmec-, not myrmic-. 
It would seem proper to recognize the emended spelling Sicilo- 
myrmex of 1926 and 1928, since it is clear that Wheeler in 1915 was 
alluding to the provenience of the specimen from the Sicilian Am- 
ber, and that the original spelling Sicelomyrmex was therefore 
either a lapsus calami or a printer’s error, according to Article 
33(a)(ii) of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The 
necessary emendation of the tribal name thus results in Sicilo- 
myrmecini. Whether this tribe is worth retaining can only be de- 
cided after full revisionary study of the tribal classification of sub- 
family Formicinae. 
Emery’s original drawings of S. corniger were good ones, but we 
think that the first photographs of the type specimen (figs. 3 and 4) 
give an excellent idea of its habitus. 
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