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tin isc connected with the proper classification of the Culicidae, 

 and under the circumstances, your committee is wholly unwill- 

 ing to merely compile a catalogue from the literature, correcting 

 any obvious violations of the rules of nomenclature which may 

 be found. 



Probably the only way in which your Committee could pre- 

 pare a satisfactory work would be through inviting specialists 

 in the different groups of insects to submit their lists, which 

 might be published under the signatures of their authors, and 

 discussed and amended as might seem necessary. For this 

 purpose mere outlines, without details, would usually suffice. 

 If the cooperation of the specialists was freely given, and their 

 proposals were freely discussed for a period, the Committee 

 might then be in a position to bring the results together in a 

 single catalogue. 



The Committee would call the attention of entomologists 

 generally, to the importance of preparing lists giving the 

 synonymy and indicating the generic types in their respective 

 groups. Such work would go far toward permanence in 

 generic designation, particularly if of such a scope as to include 

 the genera of an entire faunal region, rather than accepting a 

 continental or national limitation. Such contributions to 

 knowledge should involve assistance from practically all workers 

 in a group and your committee hopes that shortly this will 

 be the general rule. 



In dealing with various matters, it is occasionally found 

 that the International Code, as at present constituted, is either 

 capable of more than one interpretation, or fails to settle a 

 matter in dispute. We have discussed some of these questions, 

 but at the present time desire only to offer the following sug- 

 gestions for the consideration of the Society. It is to be under- 

 stood that so far as these provisions may be different from or 

 additional to those of the International Code, it is intended that, 

 if they are adopted, they shall be transmitted to the Internation- 

 al Committee, for consideration as amendments to the code. 



(1) Secondary homonyms, based on invalid combinations, 

 shall not be recognized. This means that if a new species 

 is published as A — b — , and is later wrongly transferred to 

 another genus as B — b — , it is still permissible for an author 

 to describe a new species as B — b — , although he may not 



