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body of Artliroi:)odSj but it would shorten our treatises i£ some ingenious 

 person would suggest a word which would denote Insects and the Ticks, and 

 no other group of animals. 



One other matter it seems to me the Committee might well deal with_, and 

 that is the question of the common or vulgar names of Insects. The English 

 language, far more than some others, is wanting in names to express the 

 common insects, and one name is frequently used to include animals that are 

 widely different. For instance, the term " Wireworm '^ is applied to the 

 Myriapod Julus and to the larv?e of certain beetles of the family Elaterid^. 

 The American Association of Economic Entomologists have recently issued a 

 long list of common names of Insects with their corresponding scientific 

 names appended, and they intend, as far as lies in tlieir power, to insist that 

 the common name suggested should be used for this and for no other species. 

 It would be a useful function if the African Committee would draw up a list 

 of common names of African Insects, giving in all cases their scientific 

 equivalents, and insist that these and no other names be used. 



ARTHUR E. SHIPLEY. 



