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Excerpt from The Entomological Code: A Code of Nomenclature for Use in Entomology The following rules have been prepared for the purpose of aiding entomologists in deciding questions of nomenclature arising in their work. In preparing them the various codes of nomenclature have been freely consulted and used, articles on nomenclature in various journals read, and pamphlets on the subject have furnished some points. After a mass of matter was prepared, copies were sent to many of the principal systematic entomologists of America, in fact all whom we knew to be interested in such matters. Nearly all have expressed opinions on the more important rules, and many on almost every one. Various other workers have been consulted personally and the published utterances and catalogs of several entomologists have furnished opinions. After being worked over and over again the rules have gradually taken shape, often far from their original form. They have been subjected to some use in catalog making, type fixation, c, and so far as possible they are brought into accord with the general practice of entomologists. The result, while hardly satisfactory to any one entomologist, expresses the opinion of systematic workers far more accurately than the vote of any committee. These rules do not represent the personal desires of their preparators, since there are several important rules which have been accepted reluctantly by one or both of the compilers in order to join the majority of American systematic entomologists. As they stand there will probably be at least one objector to every rule, but we hope no one will object to all of them. The point of the use of a misidentification as a genotype, and that on a name in synonymy preoccupying the use of such name in the genus, provoked the most discussion, but the weight of opinion and of practice seems to sanction the rules as herein set forth. A few object to a valid specific name being required as the basis of a genus, but by far the greater number express themselves as in favor of the rule. Rarely will two people express the same thought in the same language, and likewise two persons reading the same statement may disagree as to its meaning. An effort had been made to express the following rules in language as plain and definite as possible, and wherever it was thought helpful, examples are inserted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.