The Types of Hesperioid Genera

A growing discontent with unstable generic names has been manifesting itself among entomologists in recent years, and a number of useful papers fixing the types of genera in various groups has been the result. It is to be hoped that the idea will be carried out to the final inclusion of ctil generic names. It is also to be hoped, but perhaps vainly, that some common basis of treatment may be agreed upon, especially between the systematists of Europe and North America. Our European colleagues unfortunately persist in the use of minor so-called restrictions in the selection of logotypes, although the International rules do not permit such usage, and logical thinking forbids it in so many cases as to leave it a very weak method indeed.