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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 Acacltmy 

 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, IN ADVANCE. 



figjf 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., JUNE, 1893. 



THE latest number of "Insect Life" (April, 1893, p. 215) contains the 

 following comment on the department of Entomological Literature of the 

 NEWS: 



'* Entomological News .... no longer gives abstracts of the contents 

 of foreign entomological journals, or of only such items as refer to Amer- 

 ican entomology .... [This] innovation we regret and must view as a ' 

 retrogression; for if there was one feature which made Entomological 

 Xr^'S unique and useful to all entomologists it was this bibliographical 

 department. Even those who have access to the larger number of the 

 entomological publications of the world cannot examine them all and a 

 current statement of the contents of all in compact form is invaluable. 

 Such a department might well be made more, rather than less complete, 

 and would secure more subscribers than any other feature." 



A partial statement of , the reasons leading to this change was given in 

 the NEWS for January, 1893, p. 16. It was believed at the time that only 

 a very few of our subscribers made any use of the notices of such papers, 

 not of a monographic character, as were concerned with the description 

 of insects not found in North America in the broadest geographical sense. 

 It seemed, therefore, much better to employ this space in a manner which 

 would prove of greater benefit to the larger proportion of our readers. 

 Should it indeed be shown, from communications from subscribers them 

 selves, that such extra-North American entomological notices are of in- 

 terest to a larger number of persons than we supposed, then the original 

 scope of the Literature department will be restored. The rules laid down 

 in January were, to include notices of anatomical, physiological, embryo- 

 logical and monographic papers on insects wherever found, and of all 

 papers referring to North American insects; by North America meaning 

 all north of Panama, together with the West Indies. \\V believe that 

 these rules have been given a liberal rather than an exact application. 



