Bull, zool Norn., vol. 40, pt 4, December 1983 197 llllur K o"/// -^'-^^^ P-l^^^-^'^'^°"Sh the type specimen(s) appea.^ to be lost (Guibe, 1 954) ,t is clear that Daudin's concept of T. monitor was a broad one. He cites several Seba and Merian plates that between them depict examples of both T. leguixm (sensu Boulenger) and T. nigropunclatus. Thus, until a lecto-type or neotype is designated, T. monitor should be regarded as a composite I his does not prevent this nominal species adequately serving as the type of the genus. The two component species are closely related and no worker has ever suggested, or is likely to suggest, that they do not belong to the same genus-group REFERENCES BURT C. E. & BURT, M. D. 1933. A preliminary checklist of the lizards of r^iriRp I ,ntf ^^''^■/'■''"^-^'■''^-^"-St Louis, vol. 28, pp. 1-104. OUIBE J 1954. Catalogue des types delezardsdu Museum national d-Histoire lyaturelle. 1 1 9 pp. (Pans). PRESCH, W. 1973. A review of the tegus, lizard genus Tupinambis (Sauna-Teiidae) from South Amenca. Copeia, 1973, pp. 740-746 J. \693 Synopsi^s methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini RAY, generis, 336 pp. (London). COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED CONSERVATION OF DENDROBATESWAGLER, 1830 AND DENDROBATIDAE COPE 1865 Z.N.(S.)1930 (see vol. 39, pp. 264-278) (l)ByL. B. Holthuis {Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Postbus 9517. 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands) fnr R / "^f "°* ^^'? u'^^ ^ ^"''°'' ^^^^ Dendrobates is a replacement name iovHylaplesia merely because Hylaplesia was cited in the synonymy of Dendro-k./.. when the latter was established. Wagler nowhere stated that he intended to replace the name Hylaplesia, neither did he say that Dendrobates covered ^\\ of Hylaplesia. Actually he said that he knew of two species of Hylaplesia An example of an often-used kind of synonymy in a newly established name IS a hctitious case): Macrobrachium nov. gen. ( = Palaemon Fabricius 1798-A^cus Fabncus, 1 115-Cancer Linnaeus, 1 758)'. The author of the new name SjJt I '"d'^^te ^hat the species that he brings into the new genus were ?e^nlH^ r''"'' ^^i^','" ^^''""'■' ^y ^^''"'^*"^' '775, in Astacus. and later removed to his genus Palaemon (1798). This cannot be taken to mean that Macrobrachium is intended as a replacement name for the other three lonP. Vssn K ^^^"'P'^-^^^^ ^ genus A-us Jones, 1 850, type species A-us albus Zll: onn ^y")°"oV^Py-to which A-us niger Smith, 1875 and A-us ruber Baker, 1900 are later referred. If I discover that A-us Jones, 1850 is preoccupied Zr-'^fT""'''' '^^^.' ' '""y ^'''' ^ "^^ g^""^ ^-"^ ^ith the same three r.™t ■ '^"'•^"^^^ '-"^''-B^ker as the type species with A-us Jones non noTr^lZ '1 'y7">""y-^-"^ .'^ then not a new replacement name (nomen novum) tor A-us Jones because its genus has a different type species
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