SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
March 6 , 1937 
Dear Dr* Schmitt: 
Every day I think there will be a letter from you, so I have 
put off writing* Mr# Oehser read in the N#Y# Times that you got away 
from Charleston on schedule* I hope that this will reach you in Miami* 
It is a good thing that you thought about the lack of defini- 
tions for the Goneplacidae and Carcinoplacinae in the proof* I checked 
through the entire paper# Up as far as the Cal&ppidae, Everything from 
subtribes down gave author* s name# references to literature* and a short 
definition* From the Calappidae on* none of these were given* You had 
filled in the author 1 s name and references for some of them and the 
definitions were not hard to find in Miss Rathbun*s envelopes* For the 
Matutinae I used the definition given by Alcock* I felt that I was up 
against a blank wall when I found that the subtribe Brachygnatha and 
superfamily Brachyrhyneha had no author* references, or definitions® I 
forget now where I got my lead to start looking, but I think I have them 
all right now® However, I hope you will be back in time for page proof 
in order to check up on these® I don f t know whether you will know any- 
thing about it, but the Brachygnatha references I found are as follows* 
(Miss Rathbun didn* t even have them in Bull® 97# although she had a 
short definition of the s\ibtribe.) 
Brachygnatha De Haan, in Franz de Siebold, “Fauna Japonica, H pp® XI -XI II, 
1850.™Borradaile, Proc. Zool* Soc® London for 1900, p® 571# 1900; 
i n J. Stanley Gardiner, “The Fauna and Geography of the Maidive and 
Laccadive Archipelagoes, Vol* 1, pt® 4, pp. 425# 426, 1903; Ann® 
Mag. Nat® Hist® (7), Vol* 19# op® 466, 468, 477, 1907®* — Rathbun, IT* S 
Nat® Mus. Bull. 97# P« l4 t 1Q18® 
[I took definition from Bull® 97*1 
Superfamily Brachyrhyneha Borradaile 
Brachyrhyneha Borradaile, in J® Stanley Gardiner, “The Fauna Vol. 1, 
pt. 4, pp. 425, 426, 1903; Aim. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. 19, pp. 
4oS » 479, 481, 1907 .— Rathbun, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 97, p. 14, 191S 
[Took definition from Bull. 97-3 
Does it look all right? I feel quite certain about the Brachyrhyneha# 
Borradaile says definitely, “I propose the name Brachyrhyneha for®*.#“ 
so it is without doubt his name* So far as I could find, De Haan was 
the first to use the term Brachygnatha, and it was later modified by 
Borradaile. I made De Haan author of the name. 
