ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY, 1921. 



"This Means You." 



The editors of the NEWS are particularly fortunate in that 

 this present number contains six articles on what may be 

 termed current topics by writers outside their own body. Five 

 of these came in without solicitation, a third was very willingly 

 contributed as soon as requested. We have at various times 

 emphasized one of the ideas included in the original announce- 

 ment of the NEWS, that one of its chief functions was to give 

 entomological news. We do not, indeed, think it desirable to 

 repeat items published in such of our contemporaries as are 

 easily accessible to our own readers. We are also mindful of 

 the fact that in these days of "contracted volumes," it would 

 not be possible to publish everything. Nevertheless, within 

 these limitations, it is feasible to notice many topics of interest 

 in our field. 



Entomological publications are appearing in many different 

 places, entomological events of all kinds are occurring with 

 which one or other of our readers is much more conversant 

 than are the editors of the NEWS. We try to give you what 

 we can, at the sacrifice of time for our own studies and re- 

 searches. It would make this journal more useful and attrac- 

 tive to all if each one of you would send to the NEWS a concise 

 account of such important entomological happenings and re- 

 searches in your own special field as come to your notice. Such 

 items are given preference over formal papers and notes of 

 more technical nature. 



Mr. J. H. Williamson Collecting in Florida. 



Mr. Jesse H. Williamson, who last year collected Odonata and other 

 insects in Venezuela and Peru, as related in the NEWS, has been collect- 

 ing in Florida in March and April, at such points as Labelle, Moore 

 Haven (on part of the former site of Lake Okeechobee), Fort Myers 

 and the Caloosahatchie River. He had taken over 1200 specimens of 

 28 species of Odonata by the end of March. He expected to cross the 

 State to Miami. 



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