ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thankfully receive items 

 of news likely to interest its readers from any source. The author's name will be given 

 in each case, for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] 



To Contributors. All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our 

 earliest convenience, and, as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- 

 tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer- 

 ence, as to make it necessary to put " copy " into the hands of the printer, for each num- 

 ber, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or 

 important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change in form, 

 will be given free, when they are wanted ; and this should be so stated on the MS., along 

 with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. ED. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, 1902. 



In an editorial which appeared in the NEWS for December, 

 1901, we gave a history of the Department of Entomological 

 Literature of this journal. During the present year that de- 

 partment has been efficiently conducted by Messrs. H. L. 

 Viereck and J. A. G. Rehn, to whom, and to Mr. J. C. Brad- 

 ley, the Editors offer their hearty thanks. Unfortunately for 

 this department, the services of these gentlemen will no longer 

 be available, and the Editors have, for some time past, been 

 considering the advisability of abandoning this feature of the 

 NEWS, in its present form at least. We have taken into con- 

 sideration the facts that the Zoologischer Anzeiger and the 

 Concilium Bibliographicum * publish, at quite frequent inter- 

 vals, more extensive lists of entomological literature than the 

 NEWS can give space to, that the time and labor involved in 

 the preparation of the NEWS' lists lead but to duplication of 

 results more efficiently recorded in them and in other publica- 

 tions, f and that the space heretofore occupied by the entomo- 



* The Anzeiger is published at Leipsic, the Concilium at Zurich ; they 

 may be so addressed by those wishing information as to prices, etc. 

 The Anzeiger is in book form and comprises both scientific articles and 

 lists of titles of papers under various systematic headings ; this list is 

 termed " Bibliographia Zoologica," and may be procured separately. 

 The Concilium issues library catalogue cards, one card for each title, and 

 cards may be procured for separate groups of animals. 



t Such as the Zoological Record, London ; Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, 

 Berlin ; Zoologische Jahresberichte, Naples and Berlin ; all these are 

 issued yearly, the last named does not include purely systematic papers. 

 The Allgemeine Zeitschrift fiir Entomoloie, Neudamm, Germany pub- 

 lishes semi-monthly lists of entomological papers. 



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