Subspecies

[Kenelm Philip]

	What--no brickbats? Maybe there's hope...  :-)

	Doug Yanega pointed out that under the code, locality names would
have to be latinized. Actually I was being a bit sneakier than that. I put
the locality name in square brackets '[]' after the species, to indicate
that it has nothing to do with the code. The code might prevent one from
_describing_ a new taxon as, for example, '_Lycaena phlaeas_ [Umiat AK]',
but I know of nothing in the code that would make you unable to _refer_ to
that population of that species in that manner. Latinizing the locality
name would defeat the purpose--which is to make the location of the popu-
lation instantly accessible to everyone.

	If anyone wonders where this came from--it arose from my attempts
to make order within the Alaska Lepidoptera Survey collection when I found
that existing ssps within Alaska did not seem very helpful. So I decided to
order the collection strictly geographically (within the limitation that
series in drawers are a one-dimensional array, while the populations on the
ground form a 2-D array). (Ideally, one would have all the specimens pinned
onto a large map of the region.) I found this way of looking at things
useful, and have been doing it ever since.

							Ken Philip