. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. 63 Internatiofial Congress of Zoology. PURCHASED. to secure that parallel infra-subspecific forms occurring in two or more allied species should bear the same name. The scheme now submitted proposed that these different needs should be met by the insertion in the Regies of pro- visions under \yhich the Laws of Priority and Homonymy should apply both to the names of species and subspecies and also to the names of infra-subspecific forms, but that these Laws should operate independently for each of these two groups. Under this system those zoologists whose
. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. 63 Internatiofial Congress of Zoology. PURCHASED. to secure that parallel infra-subspecific forms occurring in two or more allied species should bear the same name. The scheme now submitted proposed that these different needs should be met by the insertion in the Regies of pro- visions under \yhich the Laws of Priority and Homonymy should apply both to the names of species and subspecies and also to the names of infra-subspecific forms, but that these Laws should operate independently for each of these two groups. Under this system those zoologists whose work was not concerned with forms below the subspecies level would not need to take any account of names published for infra-subspecific forms, while the needs of those zoologists who on the contrary were interested to secure that names given to forms of this kind should be protected under the Laws of Priority and Homon}Tny would be met in full. It was an essential part of this scheme that the Regies should contain provisions defining for nomenclatorial purposes (1) a name given to a " subspecies " and (2) a name given to an " infra-subspecific form " and that an objective test should be provided to enable zoologists to determine to which of these categories any given name belonged. The test proposed was the evidence provided by the description or other data given in the publication in which the name in question first appeared. In order to ensure the maximum degree of stability for current practice, it was proposed that, in the case of names published prior to the introduction of the scheme (which it was proposed should be as from 1st January, 1951), a less rigorous standard should be applied for determining whether a given name had been proposed for a " subspecies " rather than for an " infra- subspecific form " but that a more rigorous standard should be required in the case of names published after that date. The scheme also contained
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