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ing of the Neotropical species that Macquart had originally included 
in Cyclogaster. 
Enderlein (1914: 579, 615), without any reference to Kirkaldy 
(1910), but evidently realizing that the two species originally in- 
cluded in Cyclogaster were not congeneric, proposed the name 
Labocerina for Stratiomys at rat a Fabricius. In his paper, the new 
name was spelled Labocerina twice (pp. 579, 615), and “ Labacerino ” 
once (p. 615), and has subsequently been spelled “ Labocerino ” by 
James (1940: 124). These latter two spellings were regarded as errors 
by James (1973: 26.29). In the same paper, Enderlein considered 
Cyclogaster a synonym of Lasiopa. 
The name Cyclogaster Gronovius (1756: 9; 1760: 265; 1763: 55) 
was in dispute, as were all of his generic names, because many 
authors felt his work was not truly binomial. His Cyclogaster was 
first published in 1756, but this is pre-Linnean. The 1760 work is 
clearly not binomial, although this is the date of the name usually 
found in zoological nomenclators, being the first post-Linnean publi- 
cation of it. In 1954, the International Commission on Zoological 
Nomenclature formally ruled that Gronovius’ 1763 work, as well as 
an index of it subsequently published by Meuschen, be placed on 
the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Works in Zoological 
Nomenclature. Thus Macquart’s Cyclogaster became the earliest 
valid use of the name in zoology. 
Lindner (1958: 432), while discussing “Cyclogaster” peregrinus 
Hutton from New Zealand, recounted most of the above briefly, 
and noted that no type-species had been designated for Cyclogaster 
Macquart, but was apparently not aware of the I. C. Z. N. ruling. 
He also mentioned that Nemotelus villosus Fabricius was the type- 
species of Lasiopa (as had Enderlein, 1914: 613, and several other 
authors), which is erroneous, as the only species name associated 
with Lasiopa in Brulle’s original description was Lasiopa peleteria, 
which was described concurrently and is still regarded as a valid 
species. 
As I interpret the situation, a type-species designation is necessary 
for Cyclogaster Macquart in order to stabilize generic synonymy, 
and as far as I am aware, this has never been done. In order to 
preserve the presently accepted generic synonymies, I hereby desig- 
nate Nemotelus villosus Fabricius, originally included in Cyclogas- 
ter by Macquart, as type-species for that genus. The following 
