The Fauna Of British India Vol 3

Author : W. L. Distant
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332093397
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Fauna of British India, Vol. 5 written by W. L. Distant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fauna of British India, Vol. 5: Including Ceylon and Burma The most noteworthy incident which has arisen in connection with this family since it was previously enumerated in this series is a question of nomenclature, and applies to the name of the family itself. The question was first raised by the late Mr. Kirkaldy, who advocated the view that a family name should be founded on the oldest genus it embraced, and should be changed accordingly. He proposed three different emendations: - Myodochidae = Lygaeidae, auctt., Kirk., Entomologist, xxxii, p. 220 (1899). Geocoridae = Lygaeidae, auctt., Kirk., J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv, p. 306 (1902). Pyrrhocoridae = Lygaeidae + Pyrrhocoridae, auctt., Kirk., Faun. Hawaiien. iii, pt. ii, p. 158 (1902). The first of these substitutions has now been adopted by several writers on the family, but others and myself retain the original name. It is a similar disturbance in nomenclature as was advocated for the change of the well-known family name Capsidae to that of Miridae (cf. vol. ii, p. 413) and may well be left in the area of nomenclatory disputation. To add to the confusion, and by necessity, Kirkaldy then proposed that the deposed name Lygaeidae should be substituted for another well known and universally employed family name Coreidae. This suggestion, however, he recently discarded (Canad. Ent. 1910, p.63), again adopted the name Coreidaee and advocated that Lygaeidaee should pass away into the realms of synonymy. The effect of these propositions has been disastrous; Dr. Sharp, in compiling the last Zoological Record, has been compelled, owing to the confusion now existing, to treat the families Coreidae, Lygaeidae, and Pyrrhocoridae in combination. Since the enumeration of the Lygaeidaee was published in these volumes, Dr. Horvath has published an excellent monograph of the Colobathristinae as restricted by himself. The late Dr. Breddin lias also described a number of species from Ceylon, accompanied by a considerable dislocation of the usually observed sequence in the arrangement of the subfamilies. These publications are incorporated in the following pages, but I have not seen any of Breddin's types, and in his description of species it should be remembered that that writer pursued an analytical rather than a synthetic process. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."