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suggestion that wherever possible the name bestowed upon the 

 gall, should be given to the adult when reared therefrom. Un- 

 fortunately this is not always possible, since no one would for a 

 moment allow that it was necessary to rear from a gall before 

 describing the adult. It would be impossible and entirely im- 

 practical to attempt to enforce any such limitation, consequently 

 sooner or later some decision must be made as to what consti- 

 tutes a valid description in this group, as there are cases where 

 species have been based on characters presented by the galls 

 and subsequently the adults described. Despite the fact that 

 we desire to be courteous to earlier workers and credit them with 

 all due honor, nevertheless we must establish some standard in 

 order to obtain a satisfactory working basis. The insistence that 

 the true maker of the gall bear the same specific name as was 

 originally bestowed upon the vegetable deformity it inhabits, 

 will surely result in an almost unending series of unri\-aled SA^nony- 

 niical gymnastics, amusing though hardly edifying. 



