ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1920. 



SOME NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



1 . Label legibly all specimens as to locality and date of 

 capture and collector's name; any other data that bear on 

 the insect's relations to its environment are also desirable. 



2. When about to send insects by mail or express, first 

 read the editorial in the NEWS for January, 1915, page 33. 



3. Check up identifications of material with the original 

 descriptions as far as possible. 



4. When writing a paper for publication see that it is 

 easily legible and leave a blank margin of half an inch or 

 more on the left edge. 



5. Follow the Wistar Institute's or Muttkowski's (Annals 

 Ent. Soc. America, iv, 194-217) suggestions for the prepar- 

 ation of scientific papers. 



6. Add the names of the Order and the Family, to which 

 the insects treated belong, to the title of your paper. 



7. Follow the International Rules of Zoological Nomen- 

 clature in the forming of new generic and specific names. 



8. Specify the genotvpe of each new genus you propose. 



9. Specify the individual type or types (preferably a single 

 type), the type locality and the museum or collection in 

 which the type or types are located, whenever describing a 

 new species. 



10. Label specimens which have served as types, or as 

 originals of published figures or descriptions, with brief but 

 sufficient references to the place of publication. 



11. When identifying a specimen, add your name, fol- 

 lowed by the abbreviation "det." and the year to the laln-1 

 bearing the generic and specific names. 



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