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out, it 18 essential that the whole name of the person in whose honour the 
species is named should he retained in its original spelling. This would be 
masked bj a strict latinization of the name, as Morawitz has indicated by 
describing a species of Aids in honour of Kraatz, under the name of A, cratii) 
whilst at the same time he states that he shall place it in his collection as At 
kraatzi. This applies also, as a general rule, to names which, from their ter- 
minations, are declinable as Latin words, but, curiously enough^ not to the 
name originally objected to by Schaum, namely, wiilffiusi, which is manifestly 
wrong. The termination ius here is evidently a latinization inherited from 
some learned ancestor, and must be treated accordingly. Morawitz points 
out the absurdity of declining some names which he cites, especially showing 
how from Tatum we might make tati j and the same thing has actually been 
done by an American entomologist, who describes a species of C^rmatia undeic 
the name of C. Unceci, thus ascribing a neuter gender to Dr. Lincecum by 
way of conferring honour upon him. 
Frauenfeld (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. pp. 425- 
40 i) publishes an elaborate note upon Das Insektenleben ’zur 
Sce,^^ giving a list of species captured at sea oi* on board the 
^ Novara ^ during her voyage round the world, arranged in syste- 
matic order and in a tabular form, showing the sections of the 
passage in which the different species were noticed, and the 
number of specimens observed of each form. This list is followed 
by a series of notes upon the species, which includes descriptions 
of some new forms. The number of species is about 180; they 
include examples of all the orders. Frauenfeld remarks that, 
from the consideration of the mode of occurrence of these Insects 
on board ship, we may arrange them under three categories : — 
1. Voluntary wanderers, which occasionally visit a ship when 
they fall in with it ; 2. Involuntary wanderers, which are acci- 
dentally brought on board and retnain in the ship for a longer 
or shorter time ; and, 3. Actual inhabitants of the ship and its 
cargo. The second of these categories includes the greatest 
•number of species, as, indeed, it is possible that almost any in- 
sect may be accidentally carried away on shipboatd. The true 
insect inhabitants of ships known to Frauenfeld are only Blattd 
americana and its parasite Evania appendig aster. This paper is 
of importance in connexion with the interesting question of the 
dissemination of species by means of commerce. 
G. Fbitsch (Beri. ent. Zeitsclir. 1867, pp. 247-277) records bis general ob- 
servations on the Insect-fauna of South Africa. He remarks that the Spiders, 
Orthoptera, and Ants (true Ants and Termites) constitute the most striking 
representatives of the Arthropoda in that part of the world, and that the Le- 
pidoptera and Coleoptera occupy only a second rank. His general observa- 
tions are illustrated by a multitude of details upon Insects of various orders;' 
but these are for the most part too cursorily treated to allow of any special 
analysis. 
F. Low (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien xvii. pp. 749-761) publishes a note 
