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(iii) that it was not used by Martini and Chemnitz as an intermediate 

 term in the manner declared in Opinion 124 as affording no Status 

 as a sub-generic name as from the date on which it was so pub- 

 Hshed ; 

 (iv) that the name was published in the nominative singular [Opinion 

 183)- 

 (c) that, in view of the fact that Martini and Chemnitz did not apply the 

 System of binominal nomenclature in the volumes referred to above, 

 no specific or subspecific trivial name published therein has any Status 

 in nomenclature, even when such a name is published respectively as 

 the second or third term in a binominal or trinominal combination. 



8. The following ten (10) Commissioners voted in favour of the 

 present Opinion : — 



Calman ; Chapman ; Esaki ; Fantham ; Hemming ; Jordan ; 

 Peters ; Süvestri ; Stiles ; and Stone. 



. 9. One (i) Commissioner, namely Commissioner Richter, voted 

 against the present Opinion. 



10. The following five (5) Commissioners did not vote on the 

 present Opinion : — 



Apstein; Bolivar y Pieltain ; Cabrera; Pellegrin; and Stejneger_ 



11. At the time when the vote was taken on the present Opinion 

 there were two vacancies in the membershipof the Commission. 

 These were due to the death of Commissioner Handlirsch and the 

 resignation of Commissioner Horväth. 



IV.— AUTHORITY FOR THE ISSUE OF THE PRESENT 

 OPINION. 



Whereas the By-Laws of the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature provide that, except in cases involving 

 the Suspension of the rules, an Opinion is to be deemed to have 

 been adopted by the said International Commission as soon as a 

 majority of the Members of the Commission, that is to say ten (10) 

 Members of the said Commission, have recorded their votes in 

 favour thereof, provided that, where any proposed Opinion 

 involves a reversäl of any former Opinion rendered by the Com- 

 mission, such proposed Opinion shall obtain the concurrence of 

 at least fourteen Members of the Commission voting on the same 

 before such Opinion is to be deemed to have been adopted by the 

 Commission ; and 



Whereas the present Opinion, as set out in the summary 

 thereof, neither requires, in order to be vahd, the Suspension of 



