146 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature SUPPORT FOR THE PROPOSAL THAT THE NAME " DORILAS " MEIGEN, 1800, SHOULD BE RETAINED AND THAT THE NAME "PIPUNCULUS" LATREILLE, [1802-1803] (CLASS INSECTA, ORDER DIPTERA) SHOULD BE TREATED AS A SYNONYM « By MARTIN L. ACZ^L {Institute of Entomology, National University of Tucwntuin, Tucum4n, Argentina) (Commission's reference Z.N.(S.)221) (Extract from a letter dated 6th November, 1950) Thank you for your letter dated 25th October, 1950. I am pleased to have the opportunity to comment on the geiferic names Dorilas and Pipimculus, as I feel it most unfortunate that an application has been submitted to the Commission to suppress Dorilas in favor of Pipunculus, and not to suppress Pijmnculus in favor of Dorilas, which appears to be reasonable. I know and support the proposals to be submitted by Dr. Stone and Professor Hardy. As Professor Hardy has pointed out, we have been working under the illusion that this matter had been definitely settled and that we can use Dorilas over Pipunculus, following the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature, the Opinions concerning the Meigen (1800) names and the principle of priority. I feel it superfluous to repeat the arguments of Dr. Stone and Professor Hardy with which I whoUy agree ; I want but to point out that the change back to Pipunculus would certainly cause much more confusion than the placing of the name Dorilas on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, since in the past ten years the using of this name, in preference of Pipunculus, was predominate. During this period among the authors, who were con-tinuing the use of the name Pipunculus, only Mr. Collin of Newmarket calls for mention, having been in the years 1929-39 one of the leading workers in the family, with C. H. Curran, Th. Becker and P. Sack. As I know, he has written in the last ten years only some twelve pages on dorilaidae, while during this period Professor Hardy and I have been publishing revisions, catalogues and major contributions on this family. In order to make Professor Hardy's letter more complete, my papers in which I have used the names dorilaidae and Dorilas are as follows : — 1938, Die Verbreitung der Dorylaiden im hist. Ungarn., Fragmenta fautiistica Hnngarica, Budapest 1 : 35-36. 1939, Das System der Familie Dorylaidae, Zool. Am. 125 : 15-23. 1939, Die Untergattung Dorylomorpha m. von Tomosvaryella m., Zool. Anz. 125 : 49-69 1939. Beckerias pannonicus. eine neue Gattung und Art der Dorylaiden, Zool. An^. 126 191-195.
Support for the proposal that the name "Dorilas" Meigen, 1800, should be retained and that the name "Pipunculus" Latreille, [1802-1803] (Class Insecta, Order Diptera) should be treated as a synonym
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