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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Published monthly (except July and August), in charge of the joint 

 publication committees of the Entomological Section of the Academy 

 of Natural 'Sciences, of Philadelphia, and the American Entomological 

 Society. It will contain not less than 300 pages per annum. It will main- 

 tain no free list whatever, but will leave no measure untried to make it a 

 necessity to every student of insect life, so that its very moderate annual 

 subscription may be considered well spent. 



ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION $1.00, IX ADYAXCE. 



ggjT All remittances should be addressed to E. T. Cresson, Treasurer, 

 P. O. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.; all other communications to the Editors 

 of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy of Natural Sciences, Logan Square, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1893. 



ONE of the objects in starting the NEWS was to secure the early publi- 

 cation of papers too short for the Transactions of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society, and also those of a more popular character which were 

 unsuited for a publication like that of the Society. News notes, resume" 

 of literature, etc., were to be important features. We also determined, 

 as nearly as possible, to have the journal appear promptly the first of 

 each month. Systematic workers in Entomology knowing from expe- 

 rience, how long they had to wait for the appearance of their papers in 

 print when presented for publication in the Transactions and Proceedings 

 of the learned societies and government publications took advantage of 

 the regular appearance of the NEWS and sent their articles to that journal. 

 We did our best to try and publish them and each year increased our 

 quota of pages, and in special instances largely increased the number of 

 pages in individual numbers, but we soon found, in spite of our best will 

 and willingness to oblige, that we were compelled to call a halt, as each 

 month we had enough mss. for three or more numbers in advance and 

 everybody was clamoring for an early appearance in print. We then es- 

 tablished the rule that papers would appear according to date of recep- 

 tion, but this did not entirely cure the evil, so we made the rule that no 

 technical paper should occupy more than t\vo pages, brevier type, but 

 still they came, and now do come, all well worthy of publication, but the 

 question is how to do it. We give much for the money, and can do no 

 more, and earnestly request authors to keep within our limit of two pages 

 for the more technical papers. In some cases authors have voluntarily 

 paid for more space, and to have their papers go in a certain issue, and 

 we state this to show that there is not a favored few. We will do our best, 

 but it can hardly be expected that we should publish all our mss. in one 

 number, or take up too many pages with one article, as our motto is, 

 something in each number of interest to every reader. 



