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be included in the suggestion to be brought forward by the 

 Executive Committee in the General Meeting on Friday. 



G. Severin traduit en français la proposition du professeur 

 Seitz, qui propose de nommer une commission d'accord avec la 

 Commission Internationale de Zoologie pour étudier les règles de 

 la nomenclature et notamment la loi de la priorité et les lois 

 d'exceptions, en exigeant un nombre de voix au moins égal à 

 ceux des zoologistes, vu le nombre d'insectes plus considérable 

 que celui de tous les autres animaux. 



Il ajoute qu'il lui semble que le Congrès d'Entomologie peut 

 aller plus loin et demander une sorte d'autonomie qui lui 

 permettra de faire étudier toutes les questions importantes de 

 nomenclature par son comité international, lequel se mettra 

 ensuite en rapport avec le comité zoologique pour faire accepter 

 ou discuter ses vues. 



Chas. Kerremans then read his paper entitled : 

 Les Variétés doivent-elles être nommées ? 



Varietal names often given for reasons other than scientific 

 interest, such as personal pride, desire to possess types, etc. 

 What one author regards as a species, another ma}^ only term a 

 variety. Though names must be given to genera and species, it 

 seems unnecessary to name mere varieties, since no two individuals 

 are absolutely alike. The study of variation is necessary and 

 interesting, but is it necessary to name all the stages of variation ? 

 The difficulty illustrated by instances of the great variability in 

 various species of Buprcstidœ. Of Stigmodera variabilis, for 

 instance, he had seen thousands of examples no two of which 

 were alike. He appealed to the Congress to consider the matter 

 and find a remedj^ for the excess of nomenclature which threatened 

 to become an abuse (cf. Vol. II., p. 187). 



Hon. W. Rothschild said that, although an abuse had been 

 made of naming aberrations, as such aberrations had become of 

 interest in biology, they ought to bear names in order to make 

 reference to them easier. 



Ed. Everts gave as an example Coccinella bipniictata, which 

 varies from red to black, one form being red with two black dots 

 and another extreme black with two red dots. Both forms bear 

 names, the latter aberration being ab. biiuaculata. It was cer- 



