Kill I Minutes of the Minneapolis Meeting, 89 



Report of the Committee on Nomenclature. 



The Committee has received a letter from Dr. C. W. Stiles, 

 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 

 stating that it is proposed to work out the correct names of 

 all the animals most intimately connected with man. In the 

 course of this work, it becomes necessary to deal with the 

 insect parasites of man, and it is desired that the list, as finally 

 presented, shall show the correct names as determined under 

 the International Code, and enumerate all the synonyms. 

 Dr. Stiles suggests that this work on the insects shall be under- 

 taken in the first instance by the Nomenclature Committee 

 of the Entomological Society of America, in correspondence 

 with the like Committee of the Association of Economic Entom- 

 ologists, and such other persons as it may seem desirable to 

 consult. The report so prepared should, it is suggested, be 

 referred to the Committee on Nomenclature of the International 

 Entomological Congress and the International Commission 

 on Zoological Nomenclature, whence it would pass to the Zool- 

 ogical Congress three years hence. 



Your Committee is anxious to further these plans, recog- 

 nizing that the proposed list would be of great service. There 

 are, however, some difficulties. The Committee of the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists was formed for the purpose of 

 determining the common or vernacular names of insects, and 

 has not hitherto concerned itself with scientific nomenclature 

 beyond printing lists of scientific names to accompany and 

 define the common names proposed. Your Committee itself 

 was appointed to discuss nomenclatural questions, for which 

 the data were supposed to be provided, and did not expect to 

 have to report on matters outside of the range of nomenclature. 

 It is obvious that the preparation of a complete and authentic- 

 list of the insect parasites of man involves many taxonomic 

 questions to which nomenclature is only secondary. It is not 

 understood whether the list should include only parasites in the 

 restricted sense, but we suppose that in order to be of real value 

 and importance, it should contain the names of various blood- 

 sucking forms, Culicidae, Glossina, etc., etc., which are certainly 

 intimately connected with man. Taking this for granted, we 

 are at once brought into contact with various difficulties, e. g., 



