{"title":"Psyche","authors":"E. Bojesen","doi":"10.4324/9781351060677-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351060677-6","url":null,"abstract":"Hippiscus was established by Saussure in 86t as a subgenus of Oedipoda on a large Mexican grasshopper to which he gave the name of ocelote. Only a brief diagnosis of the group was given, and no attention was paid to it until 873, when Stl, who regarded it as a genus, gave much greater precision to its definition through the tables in his Recensio Orthopterorum and placed Serville’s well known Oed@oda discoidea in the group. Subsequently, in 1874 I referred here Oe. ruosa Scudd. and, in I876 Oe. nelecta Thorn., Oe. ]aldemazii Scudd. and Oe. corall@es Hald. Finally, in J884, Saussure in his Prodromus Oedipodiorum described a number of new forms and separated them into two series, which he termed Hippiscus and Xanthippus, regarding each as a genus, and further divided the former into two subgenera, Hippiscus proper and Pardalophora. Although I have been unable to examine two of the species described by Saussure, so large a number of new forms have been found in our country, especially in the region west of the Mississippi, and so great a confusion exists regarding them in our collections and in the writings of our entomologists, that I have ventured to subject them all to a critical study, the result of which is offered in the following pages. As will be seen, I am inclined to regard Saussure’s two genera as but subdivisions of one generic group, and to discard his subgenus Pardalophora altogether; at the same time I have applied a third subgeneric name, Sticthippus, to forms which are closely related to Hippiscus and Leprus. My Leprus i’gens which Saussure, without seeing, put in Xanthippus with a query, I am now inclined to regard as the type of an undescribed genus allied to Leprus but distinct and remarkable for the bulky form of the female. Though it seems most reasonable to consider these subdivisions as of less than generic rank, there would seem to be ground for regarding them as of some importance, for it will be noted by the observant that the subgenus Hippiscus is an eastern type, rarely occurring beyond the Sierra Nevadas*, and that Sticthippus is confined to the Pacific slope, while Xanthippus occurs with Sticthippus on the Pacific Coast, and","PeriodicalId":108244,"journal":{"name":"Forms of Education","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130380342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}