8 THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CODE. 



21. If a publication has the pages unnumbered, they shall be 

 counted as though they were numbered. If two styles of page num- 

 bering (as Roman and Arabic numerals) occur in the same work 

 the various pagings shall be considered as continuous. 



Example. — The new generic name Alpha appears on page xi of a 

 work comprising preface pages i-xxi and text pages 1-100. On page 

 3 of the same work the generic name Alpha is used in a different 

 sense than that of page xi. Then the name on page xi preoccupies 

 that on page 3. 



22. The law of priority shall apply where different stages (except 

 egg) broods, conditions, sexes or forms of insects have been described 

 under different names. 



NAMES. 



23. Generic and specific names should be taken from the Latin or 

 Greek languages, but any combination of letters in Latin form is 

 permissible. The letters K and W may be used in scientific names. 



24. Subgeneric names, and all of higher rank, should be written 

 with a capital initial ; the specific name, and all of lower rank, with 

 a lower-case initial. 



25. A name once published cannot be retracted, even by the 

 author. Nor does the author of a name, after the name is published, 

 have any more privilege than any other person with that name. 



26. A name invalid at its first appearance can never be made valid 

 for that date by any subsequent action. 



27. The author of a name is the one who validates it; however, 

 when one author publishes the manuscript description furnished by 

 another and anywhere in that work by direct statement, use of dif- 

 ferent type, quotation marks, &c, so indicates it, the name validated 

 by the publication of such manuscript (but not names of higher 

 rank dependent thereon) belongs to the author of that manuscript, 

 But the mere crediting a name to another without other indication, 

 the use of "MSS.," "in litt.," or collection label does not convey 

 authorship. 



Example. — Alpha Smith, 1900; an invalid generic name. In 

 1910 Jones uses Alpha, giving Smith 1900 as authority and date, 

 and prints a description of Alpha alba n. sp. furnished by Smith, as 

 clearly indicated by quotation marks and different type. Alba, the 

 species, is credited to Smith, but Jones is responsible for Alpha, 



