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(4) I concur with the statement of Mr. J. C. Bradley, Ent. NEWS, 

 vol. xxiii. pp. 226-227. 



(5) General use for several years should count for more than priority. 



(6) also names of secondary importance so far as established by 

 general usage. 



(7) Whole matter should be determined by Committee of International 

 Congress of Entomologists and names chosen by Committee should be 

 adhered to unchangeably. 



(8) Absurd. Leads to endless confusion to no practical end [append- 

 ed to crossed out alternative A]. 



(9) but believes that the rulings of the Committee on Zoological 

 Nomenclature of the International Zoological Congress should be 

 adopted universally even if they hold for strict priority. 



(10) Meigen's first paper is the cause of my conviction, 

 (n) Provided a rational method is adopted. 



(na) unless for special good reasons. 



(nb) but so safeguarded that it will apply only in most essential 

 cases and with very general consent. 



(12) and would suggest that where the type is in existence, the 

 author's name be retained for it in all cases, except his name be pre- 

 occupied in the same family group. 



( T 3) by decision of a committee (general), such fixed names to be 

 indicated by a hyphen or + or X signs, viz. Pontia X rapae, Pontia 

 + rapac. 



(14) provided that generally used names be established by majority 

 vote at international congresses. 



(15) However, where names are not long time-honored, generally 

 used names, I do favor the Law of Priority as giving us the only 

 permanent basis of nomenclature. 



(16) Would vote A if certain 'freak' books could be eliminated. 



(17) as determined by a general committee on nomenclature. 



(18) Provided three or more specialists of any group have an oppor- 

 tunity afforded them to place before the committee such proof as 

 they may see fit. The opinions of all workers should be solicited. 



(19) No generally used old name to be changed nor new name (as 

 of a new species) used without approval of supervising board. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell declines to vote for either A or B but 

 votes: That the rules should be so amended as to reduce nomencla- 

 tural changes to a minimum (many of the changes are not due to prior- 

 as such but to special methods of selecting generic types, etc, also, 

 especially by throwing out genera without species designated or im- 

 plied, by enforcing the rule that generic names are not homonyms 

 unless spelled alike, many changes will be avoided). When all has 

 been done that is possible in this way, it may be proper to consider 

 whether a certain number of names should not be conserved by special 

 international vote. 



