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And., %; Tetramorium caespitum, L., race punicum, Sm., 3; 
Tetramorium sp. 3; Monomorium salomonis, L., (sens. str.), %; 
M. salomonis, var. sommieri, Em., 9, 3; M. salomonis, var. 
subopacum, Em., %; M. destructor, Jerd., race gracillimum, Sm., 
4, %; Cardiocondyla batesi, For., var. nigra, For., %., Cardio- 
condyla sp., %; Pheidole pallidula, Nyl., 4, 9; P. pallidula, 
race tristis, For., 4, 3; P. teneriffana, 3; Plagiolepis pygmaea, 
Ltr., 8; Lasius nigro-emarginatus, For., 3; Myrmecocystus 
(Cataglyphis) viatica, F., race bicolor, F., %; Camponotus 
maculatus, F., (sens. str.), 3; C. maculatus, race atramentarvus, 
For., 8; C. maculatus, race fellah, Em., 3. A Lepismid was 
found with most species, and a small myrmecophilous cricket 
(? Myrmecophila sp.) with M. salomonis, var. sommiert. Notes 
were made of the habits, food, etc., of these ants. 
Ninth International Congress of Zoology. 
Dr. K. Jorpawn gave a brief account of the Ninth Interna- 
tional Zoological Congress which was held at Monaco from 
March 25th to 29th under the presidency of His Serene 
Highness the Prince of Monaco, and which he attended as 
one of the delegates of the Entomological Society of London. 
The list of members and associates was well over 700, about 
two-thirds of which seemed to be present. Entomology was 
represented by a number of authors of wide repute, such as 
Kolbe, Horvath, Ch. Oberthiir, Simon, Lord Walsingham, etc. 
A few Entomological papers were read, but the section suffered 
from scanty attendance, a fate which it shared with many 
other sectional meetings. 
The subject which stood in the foreground at the Congress 
and aroused an immense interest was undoubtedly Nomen- 
clature. The International Zoological Congress of Berlin, in 
1901, had adopted the Law of strict Priority, 2. e: priority 
without exception, much against the advice of the President 
and Secretary of the Commission on Nomenclature. Many 
protests against the hardships of this Law had been raised 
since, and there was a proposal before the Ninth Congress, 
brought forward by the German Zoological Society, mainly 
to the effect that exceptions be admissible. The proposal 
encountered a very strongly supported opposition. For some 
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