114 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. IX, 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. 



Pursuant to instructions given at the last Annual Meeting, two 

 members of the Committee on Nomenclature suggest the following 

 rule in relation to designations of supergeneric value. Tribe, sub- 

 family, family, and superfamily names should be formed by adding 

 the endings ini, inae, idae, and oidea, respectfully to the root of an 

 included, persumably typical and valid genus. 



The Committee has not been able to prepare the desired list of the 

 more important names in each order which are in danger of being lost 

 or changed in sense by a strict application of the rules of nomenclature, 

 and it takes this opportunity of inviting specialists in the various 

 groups to submit a list of names with recommendations as to the same. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



E. P. Felt, 



T. D. A. COCKERELL, 



Members of the Committee in Agreement. 



The other member of the Committee, Mr. Nathan Banks, is opposed 

 to piece-meal efforts along nomenclatorial lines and to any exceptions 

 to the law of priority and has stated that he does not care to serve 

 upon the Committee. 



On motion the report of the Committee on Nomenclature 

 was adopted. 



The following amendment to the Constitution of the Ento- 

 mological Society of America submitted at the Philadelphia 

 meeting, was read and the following substitution for Section 1, 

 as printed in the proceedings of the Philadelphia meeting, is 

 offered by the Executive Committee of this meeting, so that the 

 amendment as a whole, to constitute Article VIII of the Con- 

 stitution is as follows: 



ARTICLE VIII. 



Section 1. Name — There is hereby estabHshed a standing com- 

 mittee of the Society under the name of " The Thomas Say Foundation. " 



Sec. 2. Purpose — The purpose of this Foundation is for the pub- 

 lication of works of a monographic or bibliographic character on the 

 insects of North America. 



Sec. 3. Publication — Each publication shall be a volume complete 

 in itself, and numbered consecutively. 



Sec. 4. Committee — This committee shall consist of six members, 

 four of them to be elected by the Executive Committee of the Society, 

 two of them retiring annually, and an Editor and a Treasurer, to be 

 ■designated by the Executive Committee. 



Sec. 5. Powers — This Committee is empowered to detennine all 

 matters concerning the publication. 



