228 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(4) December 2000 I Strongly endorse his case. There seems Httle sense in changing the nomenclature of an important group of insects (para. 5 of the application), the family ORSODACNIDAE Thomson, 1859 being the probable sister-taxon of chrysomelidae (see Kuschei & May, 1990; Reid, 1995; Lawrence & Newton, 1995), because of events 198 years ago overlooked by all subsequent authors. Additional references Kuschei, G. & May, B.M. 1990. Palophaginae. a new subfamily for leaf-beetles, feeding as adult and larva on araucarian pollen in Australia (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae). Inverlchrale Taxonomy, 3(6): 697-719 Reid, C.A.M. 1995. A cladistic analysis of subfamilial relationships in the Chrysomelidae sensu lato (Chrysomeloidea). Pp. 559-631 in Pakaluk, J. & Slipiiiski. S.A. (Eds.), Biology, phytogeny & classification of Coleoptera: papers celebrating the 80th birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa. Comment on the proposed conservation of lorisidae Gray, 1821 and galagidae Gray, 1825 (Mammalia, Primates) as the correct original spellings (Case 3004; see BZN 55: 165-168; 56: 73; 57: 51. 121-123) Kenneth Mowbray Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, U.S.A. Ian Tattersall Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, U.S.A. Jeffrey H. Schwartz Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, U.S.A. In their request to the Commission to reject our proposal to conserve lorisidae and galagidae as correct original spellings (to which we responded, BZN 57: 121-123, June 2000), Groves and Jenkins (BZN 57: 51, March 2000) in part based their argument for rejection of these spellings on the fact that we had not included discussion of the family name indriidae. Their point was that, if we objected to Jenkins's (1987) revival of the original spelling of the family names as loridae and galagonidae, why had we not also objected to her revival of the original spelling of the family name indridae? As we stated in our previous communication (BZN 57: 121-123), we had not wanted to confuse our existing proposals with discussion of the latter. However, the case for retaining indriidae as the correct spelling of the family name is as straightforward as that for lorisidae and galagidae. Gmelin ( 1 788, p. 42) introduced the specific name inilri in the binomen Lemur indri, and E. GeofTroy Saint-Hilaire (in E. Geotfroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier, 1796, p. 46)
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