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Some of the views expressed in the course of the discus- 

 sions in our previous issues lead us to remark that there are 

 many ways of selecting nomina consen'anda. Just as a cer- 

 tain edition of Linnaeus's Systona Xaturac has been accepted 

 as a starting point in our nomenclature, so a catalogue of 

 Coleoptera of rS6 or a check list of Orthoptera of 190 , 

 approved by the Nomenclatorial Commissions of Entomologi- 

 cal and Zoological Congresses, can be made final standards 

 for the nomenclature of those groups back of which we shall 

 not go. Conserved names are even more for the present and 

 the future than for the past, and the standard adopted for 

 any group may, or may not, have been prepared on the basis 

 of strict priority. 



No numbers of the NEWS are issued for August and Sep- 

 tember. 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



STRICT PRIORITY IN NOMENCLATURE OR NOT? I am in favor of pro- 

 tecting the most important and generally used names against changes, 

 because I believe that this method would greatly lighten the labor 

 of the economic entomologist. The waste labor involved in looking up 

 nomenclature for the' species the economic entomologist desires to 

 discuss is a useless tax on his time. Of course, when the same name 

 is in use for two species or when the name is for some other reason 

 unfit, changes should be made, but even then these changes should be 

 made by a representative board and not by the isolated taxonomist.' 

 T. J. HEADLEE. 



STRICT PRIORITY IN NOMENCLATURE OR NOT? I write as an upholder 

 of the Code, though I cannot understand all the commission's methods 

 and I am much interested in reading your Editorial in the May number 

 of this magazine. I feel that as civilized beings, we are almost bound 

 to accept and work under a code of laws ; therefore, I work under the 

 International Code and hope to get it altered and improved where exper- 

 ience shows it is necessary. 



You, Mr. Editor, say, "that the Law of Priority has not given the 

 stability it was expected to give." For my part, I did not expect sta- 

 bility in my generation; it is too much to expect. We shall not get 



