NOMENCLATURE OF LEPIDOPTERA. 279 



QUESTION I. 



"Whether the loth or 12th edition of Linnaeus shall 

 be taken as the basis of Zoological nomenclature." 



Analysis of Replies. 



In favour of the loth edn. (1758). 



I Hampson, 2 Walsingham, 3 Meyrick, 4 Kirby, 5 Fernald, (6 Scudder), 

 7 Smith, 8 Snellen, 9 Aurivillius, 10 Staudinger, 11 Grote. Scudder assents 

 to Walsingham's replies so long as they are in accord with the A. O. U. 

 Code — this code and his own published work justify me in including his 



name among those in favour of the loth edn. Result — ; adopted 



by all. 



[Snellen (vide Reply 13) notes that the binomial nomenclature origi- 

 nated in 1 75 1, this point would not appear to affect lepidopterists.] 



Durrant. 



REPLIES. 



1. Hampson (Sir G. F.). 12 Sept. 1896. 



"That the 12th edition of Linnaeus be taken as the basis of 

 nomenclature in accordance with the decision of the Committee of 

 the British Association based on Linnaeus' own expressed prefer- 

 ence for that edition as representing the amended form of his 

 system: also because the 12th edition is generally accepted as the 

 basis in the branches of Zoology other than Entomology, and it 

 would be a mistake for authors on one Zoological order to set 

 aside the decision of the ablest body of men which has ever con- 

 sidered the subject without a general agreement of Zoologists on 

 the subject." 



[N.B. Hampson subsequently adopts the loth edition, vide Reply 11. 

 Dnrrant.^ 



2. Walsingham (Lord). 



"The loth edition, 1758, should be adopted. The British 

 Association Committee in § 1 established the Law of Priority and 

 in § 2 they wrote : — 



'The binomial nomenclature having originated with Linnaeus, 

 the law of priority in respect of that nomenclature, is not to extend 

 to the writings of antecedent authors.' 



Strickland's rules were drawn up in 1842 and adopted by the 

 British Association at Birmingham. 1865 (vide Sclater, pp. iii and 



