1912] Proceedings of the Washington Meeting 79 
which is approached elsewhere in the Hymenoptera only by 
certain Proctotrypide and Evanitide. This depletion is the 
result of a degenerative tendency that is manifest wherever 
there is considerable reduction in the size of the wasp. It is of 
interest to ascertain with what veins of other Hymenoptera 
the vein remnants in the Chalcid wing are homologous. 
The so-called marginal vein is in reality the elongated 
stigma, the “post-marginal’’ is r and R, and usually bears on 
its anterior margin a spur of the base of Rs. 
Leucospis is our most generalized group of Chalcidide so far 
as its wings are concerned. The wings of Chalcidide show a 
close relation to those of Cynipide through Leucospis in the one 
group and Jdalia in the other. 
On motion of Dr. E. P. Felt, the Secretary was instructed to 
send a message of sympathy and greeting to Dr. John B. Smith. 
The society adjourned at 4:30 p. m., to meet Wednesday, 
December 27, at 10:00 a. m. 
The annual business meeting was held by the society upon 
reconvening, and the following reports were presented: 
The report of the Committee on Nomenclature was presented 
inane, Pe iermaid. The report was ordered accepted 
and printed. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. 
There have been no specific problems brought to the attention of 
your committee during the past year. The recommendations and 
suggestions submitted by the committee a year ago, are still before the 
Society, and we would suggest that they should come up for dis- 
cussion and be voted upon. During the year various proposals for the 
reform of nomenclatorial practice have been discussed in public and 
private. One writer proposes a system of numbers to take the place of 
specific names. In another quarter there is a disposition to propose an 
entomological code to be independent of the international code of 
zoological nomenclature. Your committee is strongly of the opinion 
that the international code should be followed by all entomologists and 
is herein in hearty accord with the attitude of the last International 
Entomological Congress. It is desirable to determine the attitude of 
American entomologists on this mportant matter, and we would suggest 
that the question. be discussed and voted upon at this meeting. It is to 
be observed that the adoption of the international code does not prevent 
entomologists from formulating and urging upon the zoological com- 
mittee and congress, amendments designed to remove existing ambi- 
guities and difficulties. 
