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Vol.11: nos.1-3
ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE
Notice is hereby given that the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its Plenary Powers is involved in an application relating to the under-mentioned name included in Part 9 of Volume 13 of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature which was published on 30 September 1957.
Pentila Westwood, [1851], validation of, and designation for. and for Liptena Westwood, [1851], of type species, in harmony with accustomed usage (Class Insecta, Order Lepidoptera) (file no. Z.N. (S) 476).
Any specialist who may desire to comment on the foregoing application is invited to do so in writing to the Secretary to the International Commission (Address: 28 Park Village East, Regents Park, London N.W. 1, England) as soon as possible. Every such comment should be clearly marked with the Commission's File Number as given in the present Notice, and sent in duplicate.
The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature has pleasure in announcing that arrangements have been made for the immediate publication in book form of the first installment of each of the "Official Lists" of valid zoological names and of the corresponding "Official Indexes" of rejected and invalid names, together with the first instalments of the "Official Lists" of works approved as available for zoological nomenclature and of the "Official Index" of rejected and invalid works. The categories of names covered by these "Lists" and "Indexes" range from specific names to ordinal names. The total number of entries contained in the instalments now to be published amounts to about five thousand. These "Official Lists" and "Official Indexes" constitute the principal instrument devised to promote stability in zoological nomenclature and will be indispensible to all specialists engaged on taxonomic work in zoology and paleontology. All enquiries in regard to the above publications should be addressed to the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature at its Publications Office (41 Queen's Gate, London S. W. 7).
COLLOQUIUM ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE
It is hoped that at the Fifteenth International Congress of Zoology to be held in London in July, 1958, it will be possible for that Congress finally to approve and adopt the new text of the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature as revised by the preceding Congresses held in Paris in 1948 and Copenhagen in 1953. As arranged at the Copenhagen Congress, a draft of the revised text will be submitted for this purpose to the London Congress.
In order to assist the Congress in the examination of the draft of the revised Code and to provide ample opportunity for the discussion of the questions involved, arrangements have been made between the Secretariat-General of the Congress and the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature under which a Colloquium on Zoological Nomenclature is being organized by the International Trust on the lines of the Colloquium organized by that body in connection with the Copenhagen Congress.
The Colloquium will open on Wednesday, the 9th of July, i.e., one week prior to the opening of the London Congress. It is hoped that this bod} will be able to relieve the Congress of the bulk of the work involved in the scrutiny of the draft of the revised Code and will be able to submit to the Congress agreed recommendations as to the text to be adopted. Invitations to the Colloquium have already been issued by the Trust to a large number of zoologists known to be interested in zoological nomenclature. In addition, arrangements have been made between the Trust and the Secretariat-General of the Congress under which an invitation to the Colloquium will be issued by the Trust to any member of the Congress who expresses a desire to take part in its discussions but wrho has not as yet received a separate invitation.
Francis Hemming, Secretary to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature