1895.] 



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 \vill 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 \vry moderate annual 

 subscription may be considered well spent. 



ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION 81.00, IN ADVANCE. 



Outside of the United States and Canada $1.2O. 



fjgg* 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., JANUARY, 1895. 



THE SIXTH VOLUME. 



WITH the present number the NEWS begins its sixth volume. It is not 

 very old, but its newness is wearing off, and it feels that it has a career, 

 and that it has come to stay. Our efforts have been crowned with suc- 

 cess, and there is every teason why the NEWS should still grow and 

 prosper. In the beginning we had our doubts about its life, as it would 

 not have been the first entomological journal to die. We feel that our 

 subscribers and friends have aided us greatly, and it has been this that 

 has encouraged us to do our best for them. We frequently receive kind 

 words in relation to the NEWS, and these words are very gratifying. The 

 journal is to be continued and enlarged if necessary, and we hope to 

 receive efficient support so that this may be done. Why not have a forty 

 page illustrated monthly devoted to entomology? It can be done with 

 your help, and it would be a grand thing. Think of it, four hundred 

 pages a year ! Aid us in getting the necessary subscribers and we will do 

 the rest. Tell your entomological friends what we would like to do and 

 we may do it. We wish you all a happy New Year, and feel sure that 

 your interest in natural history will be of benefit to you in many ways; it 

 means relaxation from the cares of life and recreation. 



OUR local physician showed me yesterday a lizard about six inches long 

 apparently dried and coated over with wax entirely. He said that it was 

 found in a Bee Tree near here. The bees had coated it over and tlu-n 

 built their cells against it and on it. Possibly the lizard intruded on the 

 new colony in the log and they stung it to deatli and then coated it over 

 to prevent decomposition. J. T. MONELL. 



