[430]. Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. i., 1834, p. 203; Cf. Hodgson, Pr. R. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, xvi., 1905, p. 35; Zool. Anz. xxv., 1905, p. 254; Discovery Exp., “Pycnogonida,” 1907; Bouvier, Exp. Antarct. Fr. 1907.
[431]. See pp. [535], [541]. Cf. Dohrn (t. cit.), p. 228.
[432]. The first known species was described as Phoxichilus proboscideus, Sabine, from the shores of the North Georgian Islands (1821).
[433]. Pocock (Encycl. Brit., 10th ed., Art. “Arachnida”) makes Hannonia the solitary type of a family. Cf. Loman, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., xx., 1904, p. 385.
[434]. Loman conjoins all these genera, and also Lecythorhynchus, with Nymphopsis, as a sub-family Nymphopsinae of Ammotheidae.
[435]. Edinb. New Phil. Journal, Oct. 1842, p. 367 (P. capillata on Plate).
[436]. Proc. Boston Nat. Hist. Society, vol. i., 1841–44, p. 92.
[437]. Found by Sir John Ross’s expedition in 1840, and subsequently by the Challenger expedition and other visitors.
[438]. Stebbing has recently shown (Knowledge, Aug. 1902, p. 157) that the genus Phoxichilus was instituted by Latreille (Nouv. Dict. d’hist. nat. 1804) for the Pycnogonum spinipes of Fabricius, now Pseudopallene spinipes, auctt. Hence he changes Pseudopallene to Phoxichilus, Latr., and Phoxichilidae and Phoxichilus, auctt., to Chilophoxidae, etc.; it also follows that the family known to all naturalists as Pallenidae should, according to the letter of the law of priority, be henceforth known as the Phoxichilidae. In my opinion this is a case where strict adherence to priority would serve no good end, but would only lead to great and lasting confusion (cf. Norman, J. Linn. Soc. xxx., 1908, p. 231).
[439]. Vide note 2, p. 537.