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On reading the above I wished that we had a great many more 

 Wallaces than we do have, i.e. if the entomologists of our own 

 country would follow in the footsteps of this great English ento- 

 mologist the progress of entomology would be much greater. A 

 great many entomologists at present prepare large lists of insects, 

 but probably one in a hundred cites the locality in which the in- 

 sects are found; a great many on the other hand say North 

 America, which means anywhere between the Atlantic and Pacific 

 coasts, or from the Northern border of Central America to the 

 confines of eternal snow, or just give the separate States. This 

 is a fine state of affairs, is it not ? This is also especially exas- 

 perating to the student of geographical distribution of insects. 

 The exact locality I think is as of much importance as it is to 

 know what species of plant or plants this or that species of insect 

 feeds on. I hope that hereafter entomologists will pay more at- 

 tention to the citation of localities. We know what care botanists 

 take when out collecting, they jot down notes of each and every 

 species of plant that they find, of their habits, situation and lo- 

 cality right on the spot. For a very interesting and instructive 

 paper on this subject I would refer the reader to the March num- 

 ber of the " Canadian Entomologist," page 46, where Mr. 

 Cockerell expresses his views. 



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Dr. S. W. WILLISTON, of Yale University, New Haven, Conn., the 

 Dipterologist, has accepted a professorship in the University of Kansas, 

 at Lawrence. 



INSECTS NAMED. i. Penthe obliquata ; 2. Melanotiis cotninnnis ; 3. 

 Holotrophus bifasc iatus ; 4. Aphorisfa vittata ; 5. Aphodius fimetarius ; 

 6. Eros aurora. \V. M. HILL, Chester, I'a. 



