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Excerpt from The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Diptera Nematocera, Excluding Chironomid and Culida
It has always been my endeavour to describe the species and not merely the type specimens as is too often done.
In preposing the term neotype (or new type) it may he that an original suggestion is being made, as I am not aware that it has previously been proposed. It is intended for use when the original type is lost and a new one is set up, either from amongst the original cotypes or otherwise; and selected either by the author of the species or by a competent specialist. If selected from cotypes or chosen by the author of the Species from other specimens, a neotype should practically be Of equal value with the original type; but a neotype set up by any other person than the author might by some entomologists be ranked as of rather less value. The only occasion when it has been necessary in this work to employ the word is in the case of Simulium indicam, Becher, where I have selected one of the original specimens from which the description was drawn up, to represent the type of the Species.
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