11 . 
ON RECENT DIPLOPOD NAMES. 
An attempt at an arrangement of the diplopod families and genera 
was published in the preceding year as an introductory note to a 
revision of the American Craspedosmatidae. Apparently without 
having seen this paper Sig. Filippo Silvestri has recently prepared t 
a similar list in which many new families and genera are proposed, 
several of which were already provided. Other genera not included 
in ray arrangement have been published by Pocock, Verhoeff, Broelle- 
mann, and Porat, all of which appear in Sig. Silvestri ’s alphabetical 
list with the exception of four of Mr. Pocock ’s genera of Zephronii- 
dae t. Of this list the following names are believed to be una- 
vailable, or exception is taken to their disposition by some of the 
writers mentioned. 
Aporodesmus Porat, 1894. 
The type of Pocock’s genus of the same name is A. vicentii Poc., 
from the West Indies, and this is in all probability not congeneric with 
A. gabonicus (Lucas), whatever that may be, which stands as the 
type of Aporodesmus Porat. Moreover, Porat ’s genus appears to be 
older than Pocock’s by several months, so that the name must 
be reserved for the African form ; accordingly vmcentii of Pocock 
may be given the new generic name Docodesmus. 
Attemsia Cook, 1895. 
Since recognizing Verhoeff’s subgenus as worthy of generic rank, I 
have seen specimens from the Adelsberger Grotte, in all probability 
referable to A. stygia (Latzel). They were not congeneric with the 
types of Craspedosina rawlinsii in the British Museum. 
Boeemania Silvestri, 1896. 
Unfortunately, this name has been used for a genus of fishes ; for 
the genus of Lysiopetalidae may be substituted Trypostrephon, nom, 
nov., with T. ojientalis (Silvestri) as type. 
♦Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. IX, pp. 1-4, October 1895. 
t Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XVI, March 1896. 
t Zoosphaeriurn, Arthrosphaera. Castanotherium, and Cyliosoma, Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XVI, Nov. 1895, pp. 410-414. 
Brandtia, p. 5. 
