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here since, through oversight, he used the name Cyatho- 
cephalus for one of his new subgenera. As has already 
been shown this name was present in two standard com- 
pilations prior to the year 1915. There is, consequently, no 
way in which Emery could have justified his repetition of 
the name. 
Emery's paper was duly entered in the Zoological Record 
for 1915 and it is interesting to see what they made of it. 
Three of the subgenera were prominently placed in a key 
and noted as new in bold face type. Immediately following 
this key were two line descriptions of two more new sub- 
genera which were also noted in bold face. All five of these 
are listed in the index of the Zoological Record for the year 
1915. The remaining six subgenera were incorporated in 
several short paragraphs which together total slightly more 
than three hundred words. Of these seventy-nine are 
italicized. To make matters worse the italics may be 
specific, generic or tribal names and in one case they refer 
to a publication. Is it any wonder, since Argus could not 
be called to the aid of the compilators, that the names of 
the six new subgenera escaped notice? It may be said in 
Emery’s defense that his masterly treatment of the 
Myrmicinae in the Genera Insectorum, when that section 
was published in 1921, does much to condone this rare lapse 
from taxonomic grace. At the same time it cannot be too 
strongly stressed that the practice of embodying the names 
and description of new subgenera as a part of the text is 
pernicious in the extreme. The very facility with which 
this can be done, especially if the subgenotype is one of pre- 
vious description, makes it especially dangerous. 
There remains the duty of assigning a new subgeneric 
name to replace Emery’s synonym. With a view to min- 
imizing the change and retaining a term which is very 
aptly applied to the curious, cup-headed workers of this 
group I propose the following alteration : 
Subgenus Cyathomyrmex nomen novum, to replace the 
synonymic subgenus Cyathocephalus Emery. The subgeno- 
type Cryptocerus pollens Klug, the subgeneric character- 
istics as delimited by Emery in the Myrmicine section of 
the Genera Insectorum. 
