Tribal Name of the Raninidæ

Abstract

I AM far from a scientific library and unable to Verify Mr. Stebbing's reference to Latreille's classification of the Raninidæ, but have not the least doubt that the reference is correct. There is no reference to Latreille's tribe Notopterygia either in Milne Edward's “Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés” or in de Haan's “Crustacea” in Siebold's “Fauna Japonica,” and as I was concerned rather with the correction of existing schemes of classification than with the work of earlier authors, Latreille's “Cours d'Entomologie” escaped my attention. Had I read it I should have suggested the restoration of Latreille's tribe, giving to it the new definition set forth in my memoir communicated to the Linnean Society, and it seems that my proper course will be to withdraw the name “Gymnopleura” and substitute that of “Notopterygia, Latreille,” in an addendum to the printed paper.