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ceptable and useful. Requests were received from all parts of 

 the country, from educational institutions and students, and long 

 since the entire edition was exhausted. There is, perhaps, no 

 similar work in such general use, and copies that find their way 

 to dealers in second-hand books find a ready sale at a good price. 



The book has stimulated study and has created increased de- 

 mand for information concerning insect habits from all parts of 

 the State. There is no other one work in New Jersey libraries 

 from which an equal amount of such information can be ob- 

 tained, and as a reference work it is in constant demand. 



Since the publication of the last edition a new generation of 

 collectors and students has come into being, and the entomolog- 

 ical societies in New York City, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and in 

 Newark have increased largely in membership. New Jersey still 

 furnishes a favorite hunting-ground for many of these collectors 

 and students, and our knowledge of the species has increased 

 enormously. In the present edition there are 139 recorders, and 

 many of those that had only a few records in the last edition 

 have contributed liberally to this. Almost an equal number of 

 contributors have died or have ceased to add to entomological 

 work; but their notes are still serviceable and suggestive. 



Among those who have contributed to the actual work of 

 preparing the list there have been additions and subtractions. 

 Mr. R. P. Dow has contributed a list o-f Thysanura, an order 

 which was entirely unrepresented before. In the Neuropterous 

 orders Mr. Nathan Banks is still authority, save in the Odonata, 

 which, as before, have been done by Dr. Philip P. Calvert. The 

 biting and sucking lice have been worked over by Prof. Herbert 

 Osborn, and the list is from his publications as marked for me 

 by him. In the Homopterons section of the Hcmiptera, Mr. E. 

 P. Van Duzee has helped me out and has identified a large part 

 of the species for collectors of New Jersey material, while Dr. 

 W. E. Britton has very kindly done the Alcyrodidcc. In the 

 Hemiptera Hetcroptera Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno has pre- 

 pared the list except in the Capsidcc, in which Mr. Otto Heiclmann 

 has again contributed. In the Orthoptera Mr. James G. A. Rchn 

 has arranged the list and has named much of the material gath- 



