14 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 73 



Neumann 1897 est un nomen nudum, puisque ni Marx, ni Neumann 

 n'en ont donne une description. Le principe statue par TOpinion 4 et 

 applique dans TOpinion 53 est inadmissible et doit etre rejete comme 

 tout-a-fait contraire aux lois fondamentales de la nomenclature 

 zoologique." 



Monticelli states : " I cannot agree with the ^rst point of the 

 opinion of Stejneger from which, according to my judgment, a 

 contradiction results. 



" As the Commission must, on the basis of the conclusions of the 

 relator, determine the nomenclature of the two species of Derma- 

 centor (as results from the second point of the same conclusions 

 by the wide discussion of the case presented for the examination of 

 the Commission), I think that the Commission cannot declare its 

 incompetence to express an opinion on Dr. Pierce's question. I think, 

 therefore, that the Commission could well give its opinion on the 

 specific name of the species of Dermacentor which transmits ' spotted 

 fever ' to man. 



" Because, having fixed the two specific names, Dermacentor 

 venustus Marx, 1897, and Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, 1908, and 

 having identified with these names all the other names that dififerent 

 authors have attributed to the ticks of * spotted fever,' it seems to 

 me that — from the elimination of the names by which the relator 

 has arrived at the second point of his conclusions — the specific name 

 of the Dermacentor that gives spotted fever logically should result. 



" It only remains to identify which of the two species of Derma- 

 centor is the intermediate host of the parasite of ' spotted fever.' 



" 2. I agree, however, to the second point of the conclusions of 

 the relator." 



Not voting, two Commissioners : Hartert, Stiles. 



