May, '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 157 



Doings of Societies. 



Insect Names. 



At the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Association of 

 Economic Entomologists, held in Philadelphia on December 

 29-30, 1904, the Society, with the object of conducing to uni- 

 formity in the use of common names of insects, adopted a 

 report of its Committee on Nomenclature, consisting of Prof. 

 Herbert Osborn, of the University of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, 

 Chairman ; Prof. F. M. Webster, of the University of Illinois ; 

 and Prof. C. P. Gillette, of the University of Colorado ; recom- 

 mending the publication of the accompanying list of common 

 names of insects, these names being the ones current through- 

 out a large part of the world and throughout the region of the 

 species. They urged that every entomologist use these names 

 and these only, for English names ; that the Latin name be 

 included but once in as inconspicuous a manner as possible ; 

 and that copies of this list be furnished to the leading agricu- 

 j-^tural papers of the country, and that the editors of such papers 

 be requested to use these, and these only, in all articles- refer- 

 ring to such species. 



Only names were placed upon the list that were agreed to 

 unanimously, a much larger list remaining under consideration 

 for future action. 



H. E. SUMMERS, Secretary A . E. E. 



List of Names Recommended for Exclusive Use. 



American cockroach, Perip/ane/a <uiii'rii\ina L. 



Angoumois grain-moth, Siiotroga cerealclla L. 



apple-leaf skeletonizer, Canarsia haminondi Riley. 



apple-aphis, Aphis ponii L. 



army-worm, Hcliophila unipnncfa Haw. 



asparagus beetle, Crioceris asparagi L. 



bag-worm, Thyridopteryx cphcincru-fonnis Haworth. 



bean- weevil, H rue hits obtectns Say. 



bedbug, Klinophilos Icctularia L. 



boll-weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh. 



boll-worm, Hcliothis obscura Fab. 



brown-tail moth, /-'./tpnnfis I'/irysorr/nc'd L. 



buffalo tree-hopper, i ', >,^,i hubalus Fab. 



cabbage aphis, Aphis brassictc L. 



