[324] Apis. **. c. 2. α. K.
[325] Reaum. iv. 499.
[326] Rai. Hist. Ins. Prolegom. xi.
[327] This kind of misnomer frequently occurs in entomological authors.—Thus, for instance, the Curculio (Rynchites) Alliariæ of Linné feeds upon the hawthorn, and Curculio (Cryptorhynchus) Lapathi upon the willow (Curtis in Linn. Trans. i. 86.); but as Alliaria is common in hawthorn hedges, and docks often grow under willows, the mistake in question easily happened: when, however, such mistakes are discovered, the Trivial Name ought certainly to be altered.
[328] I consider this insect as the type of a new subgenus (Phyllopertha, K. MS.), which connects those tribes of Melolontha, F. that have a mesosternal prominence with those that have not. Of this subgenus I possess six species. It is clearly distinct from Anisoplia, under which DeJean arranges it.
[329] Wiener Verzeich. 8vo. 29.
[330] Fabricius seems to have regarded the saw-fly that feeds upon the sallow (Nematus Capreæ), not only as synonymous with that which feeds upon the osier, but also with our little assailant of the gooseberry and currant. Yet it is very evident from Reaumur's account, whose accuracy may be depended upon, that they are all distinct species. Fabricius's description of the fly agrees with the insect of the gooseberry, but that which he has given of the larva belongs to the animal inhabiting the sallow. Probably, confounding the two species, he described the imago from the insect of the former, and the larva (if he did not copy from Reaumur or Linné) from that of the latter. Linné was correct in regarding Reaumur's three insects as distinct species, though he appears to be mistaken in referring to him under N. flavus, as the saw-fly of the currant and gooseberry is not wholly yellow.
[331] Peck's Nat. Hist. of the Slug-worm, 9.
[332] Trost Kleiner Beytrag. 38.
[333] Reaum. ii. 477.