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Appointment of Delegates. 



At the request of the President, tlie Kev. G. Wheeler 

 announced that the Council had been invited to elect Delegates 

 to represent the Society at various functions, and that the 

 following had been elected : — for the Centenary Celebration of 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor 

 CoMSTOCK and Dr. Holland; Professor Fehnald, who had 

 also been elected, was unable to attend ; for the First Eugenic 

 Congress, in July, Professor Batkson ; for the 250th Anni- 

 versary of the Koyal Society, in July, the Puesident ; for the 

 International Congress of Entomology, in August, the Presi- 

 dent, the Rev. G. Wheeler, Secretary, and Messrs. G. T. 

 Bethunb-Baker, H. Rowland-Brown, and the Hon. W. 

 Rothschild. 



Exhibition. 



Parasites on a Parasite.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker ex- 

 hibited a specimen of Ci/clopodia hojyei, Westw., a parasite on 

 the Indian Flying-fox ; this was itself parasitised by an 

 Acarid of the genus Gaviasus, there being no less than 17 of 

 this small species on one specimen of C. hopei. 



Discussion on Nomenclature. 



There being no other exhibits and no papers to be read, tbe 

 President said that he thought it would be a good opportunity 

 to discuss the important subject of Nomenclature, and asked 

 Mr. Durrant to give an account of certain generic names pro- 

 posed by the late Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy for Hemiptera, to take 

 the place of other preoccupied names. Mr. Durrant gave 

 them to the President to read, which he did amidst much 

 laughter, the names, though disguised under such Greek- 

 looking forms as Ochisme, Marichisme, etc., being -in reality 

 merely composed of the words " Florry kiss me," "Peggy 

 kiss me." and so forth. The President observed that such 

 names were impossible of acceptance, and merely tended to 

 make Entomological nomenclature the laughing-stock of the 

 scientific world. He feared also that if the strict law of 

 Priority were'to be insisted upon in names, it might soon be 

 also in anatomical and kindred nomenclature ; he mentioned a 



