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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, IN ADVANCE. 



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SSif 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., MAY, 1896. 



THE collecting season is opening and nets, cyanide bottles and 

 other apparatus are being prepared for action. Work on the 

 cabinet is postponed until cooler weather and all our interest 

 centres on the insect in the field. There are several things our 

 field workers can do to advance the study of entomology and the 

 opening of the season is a good time to begin. We refer to 

 getting material in good condition and putting dates on paper 

 or pin. Every collector should also have his pin labels contain- 

 ing his name and locality, and should never fail to have his or 

 her specimens properly labeled. The time is coming when an 

 insect will mean more than a name, as many biological studies 

 of interest will be taken up in the near future, and an insect 

 without date or locality will be considered worthless for every 

 purpose other than as an individual of a species. Also re- 

 member it is just as easy for a student to study from a faultless 

 specimen as it is from one that looks as though it had been 

 struck by a cyclone. 



NOTICE. The Regents of the N. M. Agricultural College having ar- 

 ranged to dispense with my services after June 3oth, correspondents are 

 requested to send me no more insects to determine, as I shall not be able 

 to attend to them. T. D. A. COCKEKELL, Agricultural College, Mesilla 

 Park, N. M. 



