A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . imself, in his Memoir on the Classification of theLinnaean Insecta,^ read at the Linnaean Society in theearly part of 1814, refers to his article in the ^ EdinburghEncyclopaedia. In 1826 Risso, finding that the nameCalypso, which in 1816 he had given to a genus allied toGalathea, had already been used by naturalists, proposedthat of Janira in its stead, in the Errata to his Natural History of the Crustacea of Nice ; Latreille,however, overlooking the prior employment of the nameJanira by Leach, rejected that name and proposed thatof Oniscoda in


A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . imself, in his Memoir on the Classification of theLinnaean Insecta,^ read at the Linnaean Society in theearly part of 1814, refers to his article in the ^ EdinburghEncyclopaedia. In 1826 Risso, finding that the nameCalypso, which in 1816 he had given to a genus allied toGalathea, had already been used by naturalists, proposedthat of Janira in its stead, in the Errata to his Natural History of the Crustacea of Nice ; Latreille,however, overlooking the prior employment of the nameJanira by Leach, rejected that name and proposed thatof Oniscoda in its stead, in the Families Naturelles du ONISCODA. 337 Regne Animal, 1S25,* forgetting that he had himselfused that lattei name for the tribe, of which Oniscodais the type. * The effect of forgetting that he had himself used the latter name forthe tribe of which Oniscus is the type, and this restoration of the name,/anira to Leachs genus will be, that Rissos decapod genus, successivelynamed Calypso and Janira, will require a third generic NEAR FOLKESTONE. VOL. II. 338 ISOPODA. NOR MALI A. AHELLIDM.


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