Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 325 
_ Some of the views expressed in the course of the discus- 
sions in our previous issues lead us to remark that there are 
many ways of selecting nomina conservanda. Just as a cer- 
tain edition of Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae has been accepted 
as a starting point in our nomenclature, so a catalogue of 
Coleoptera of 186— or a check list of Orthoptera of 190—, 
approved by the Nomenclatorial Commissions of Entomologi- 
cal and Zoological Congresses, can be made final standards 
for the nomenclature of those groups back of which we shall 
not go. Conserved names are even more for the present and 
the future than for the past, and the standard adopted for 
any group may, or may not, have been prepared on the basis 
of strict priority. 
No numbers of the News are issued for August and Sep- 
tember. 
Notes and News. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 
OF THE GLOBE. 
Strict Priority In NoMENCLATURE—OR Not?—I am in favor of pro- 
tecting the most important and generally used names against changes, 
because I believe that this method would greatly lighten the labor 
of the economic entomologist. The waste labor involved in looking up 
nomenclature for the species the economic entomologist desires to 
discuss is a useless tax on his time. Of course, when the same name 
is in use for two species or when the name is for some other reason 
unfit, changes should be made, but even then these changes should be 
made by a representative board and not by the isolated taxonomist.— 
T. J. HEADLEE. 
Srrict Prrorrtry IN NoMENCLATURE—oR Not?—I write as an upholder 
of the Code, though I cannot understand all the commission’s methods 
and I am much interested in reading your Editorial in the May number 
of this magazine. I feel that as civilized beings, we are almost bound 
to accept and work under a code of laws; therefore, I work under the 
International Code and hope to get it altered and improved where exper- 
ience shows it is necessary. 
You, Mr. Editor, say, “that the Law of Priority has not given the 
stability it was expected to give.” For my part, I did not expect sta- 
bility in my generation; it is too much to expect. We shall not get 
