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PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER. 1908. 



We not infrequently receive lists of species of insects for 

 insertion in this journal that are hardly worth publishing and 

 we also publish some that are hardly worth the room they take 

 up. Our object in doing this is to encourage the writers and 

 also in the hope that the lists may contain the names of some 

 insects that will be of use in showing distribution later on 

 when such matter is collated. The people who send these lists 

 go out and turn over a few logs and pick up the conspicuous, 

 common and widely-distributed forms and generally overlook 

 the species peculiar to the district. In other words, they are too 

 superficial in their work and do not wait until they can send in 

 a list that is complete enough to be of value. Some time ago 

 we received a sending of Diurnal Lepidoptera from Arizona 

 and strange to say the box did not contain a single species that 

 is not found in Pennsylvania. We recognize the great value 

 of faunal lists when they really represent the locality or dis- 

 trict where they are taken and we are glad to publish them as 

 space permits. On the other hand a list that is only a surface 

 skimming and contains the names of species that get in the way 

 of the collector and are found from Winnipeg to Tampa and 

 from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate is scarcely worth while. 



THE entomological societies of New York, Brooklyn and Newark gave 

 a dinner at the Imperial Hotel, Brooklyn, on November 2ist in honor 

 of Professor John B. Smith, State Entomologist of New Jersey, who 

 on this date celebrated his fiftieth anniversary. 



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