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IT appears from your issue of March 19 (p. 480) that Dr. Wheelton Hind was to read a paper before the Geological Society on March 25, on a new species of Solenopsis. We have here an illustration of the extraordinary persistence of an untenable name. The name Solenopsis was bestowed by Westwood in 1841 (An. Mag. Nat. Hist., vi. p. 86) on a very common and well-known genus of ants. In 1844 McCoy gave the same name to the genus treated of by Dr. Hind, which consists of Mollusca occurring fossil in the; Carboniferous rocks. This Molluscan genus (which was. made the type of a family Solenopsidse by Neumayr) cannot possibly retain the name it bears, and it may be, called. Solenomorpha.
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COCKERELL, T. The Name Solenopsis. Nature 67, 559 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067559b0
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