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BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 
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which cases no hyphen is to be used. Examples: Stink-bug, flea-beetle, leaf-miner, 
leaf-roller, twig-girdler, army worm, sawfly, grasshopper, treehopper, froghopper, 
waterstrider. 
5. —The hyphen should not be used to conpect the group name and the modifying 
name. Examples: Bean weevil, yellow mealworm, hop aphid, plum curculio. 
6. —When two or more words, expressing one idea, are included in a modifying part 
of the name, these words should be connected by the hyphen. Examples: twelve- 
spotted cucumber-beetle, grapejberry -moth. 
7. —When two distinct ideas are expressed in the modifying part of the name the 
hyphen should be omitted between the words representing these separate ideas. 
Examples: Round-headed apple-tree borer, Florida red scale. 
8. —Group names: 
The use of systematic group names as a basis for common names should be dis¬ 
couraged. Examples: Green diabrotica, two-spotted doryphora, oak eriococcus. 
When a well known English name exists for a group, family or a number of insects 
with similar habits or similar characteristics, it should be used in preference to any 
other. Examples: Beetle, weevil, walkingstick, scale, leaf-roller. 
9. —Modifying words: 
The modifying- names should be based, if possible, on some outstanding character¬ 
istic of the insect; and the direct translation of other than descriptive specific names 
should be avoided. Examples: (satisfactory) oyster-shell scale, two-striped walking- 
stick; (unsatisfactory) Abbot’s sawfly, Baker's mealy-bug. 
The modifying name may be based on a geographic region which constitutes the 
original home of the insect or in which it first attained economic importance, but 
the adoption of such names is to be discouraged. Examples: Oriental peach moth, 
American cockroach, San Jose scale, Japanese beetle. 
The modifying name may be based on a co-relation between the insect and its host. 
Example: Emasculating bot-fly. 
The modifying name should not be based on the name of an insect’s host unless 
this host is known to be its outstanding and important one, Examples: Pear thrips, 
wheat midge, cabbage aphid, corn billbug not chufa billbug. 
10. —More than one host-plant should not be used in a common name. Examples: 
Plum and thistle aphid. 
11. —While in certain exceptional instances it may be advisable to sanction two 
different common names for the same insect, this is objectionable and a practice to 
be avoided. Examples: Bollworm, corn earworm: cotton aphid, melon aphid. 
12. —Names already in common use should be retained in so far as is possible; 
but they should be made to agree in formation with the recommendations in para¬ 
graphs 3-7 inclusive. 
Mr. E. P. Felt: I move that the report be accepted and the recom¬ 
mendations of the committee be approved. 
Mr. S. B. Fracker: I would like to amend the motion so as to indi¬ 
cate that it is the sense of this meeting that the use of the hyphen in 
common names of insects be eliminated to as great an extent as the 
committee finds feasible. 
