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Amendments to the " Regies internationales de la Nomenclature 

 zoologique." — In its executive sessions the Commission has eon- 

 sidered 30 propositions which have been submitted as amendments 

 to the present International Rules. Of these propositions, the 

 Commission unanimously recommends to the Congress the 

 adoption of the following : — 



Art. 4. For the word root, substitute the word stejn. 



Art. 27 {b). For the word larva, substitute the words any stage in the life- 

 history. 



Art, 35. Insert as a third paragraph the following : — 



" Specific names of the same origin and meaning shall be considered 

 homonyms if they are distinguished from each other only by the following 

 differences ; 



(a) The use of ae, oe, and e, as caeruleus, coeruleus, ceruletis ; ei, i, and y, as 



chiropus, cAeiropus ; c and k, as microdon, mikrodon. 



(b) The aspiration or non-aspiration of a consonant, as oxyryncus, oxy- 



rhynclms. 



(c) The presence or absence of a c before t, as autumnalis, auctumnalis. 



(d) By a single or double consonant : litoralis, littoralis. 



(e) By the endings -ensis and -iensis to a geographical name, as timorensis, 



timoriensis." 



Art. 36. Omit from the examples — Maorodon, Microdon; caeruleus, coeruleus, 



ceruleus ; silvestris, sylvestris, silvaticus, sylvaticus ; littoralis, litoralis ; autum- 

 nalis, auctumnalis ; dania, damma. 



Appendix F. In the English and German texts, substitute the words trans- 

 literation and transliterated for transcription and transcribed, 



AppeiKlix G. In all the three texts, substitute paragraph for rules, and omit 

 from the heading in French text the words Regies de la. 



Italian Translation, — The Commission has voted to issue an 

 official Italian edition of the International Rules. 



(Signed) CH. WARDELL STILES, 



Secretary of Commission. 



