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kindly tell us where we are to get the $500 to supply ten color- 

 ed plates of Noctuidae? If we took so much from the re- 

 sources of the NEWS, where would the Western Noctuiclist 

 come in and the Dipterist and Coleopterist and the other or- 

 ders of insects? Why, it is quite a feat to make an entomologi- 

 cal journal live, let alone supply the wants of each individual. 

 If better support were given it would improve things very ma- 

 terially, but refusing to subscribe does not buy any kind of 

 plates. The proper thing to do would be to have a journal of 

 entomology at a subscription price of $5 a year and then it 

 would be a credit to the study. 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



DIXIE'S CRICKETS CHIRRUP ON Altoona, Pa., Feb. 5.- The Chirrup 

 of crickets enlivens the night in the vicinity of the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road's big transfer sheds here. There seems to be quite a lot of them. 

 Transfer men believe they were brought here from the South on a 

 freight car. NewspAper. 



Crickets hibernate in the adult stage. If you want to find a big lot 

 of big fat crickets in the winter time, just visit the ''Entomologists' 

 Clubhouse," at Anglesea, N. J. In the summer time, there is not one 

 (?) in the house, but just as soon as the nights grow cold they start- 

 to come in by ones and twos. "A word to the wise is sufficient'' (gen- 

 erally, but not always) ; don't leave your old flannel shirts and coats in 

 your locker over the winter months. If you wish to hear crickets sing 

 (?) in winter time, go down to the old clubhouse at Anglesea, N. J. 

 Start up the fire in the big stove in the front room; draw up a chair to- 

 wards the stove; put up your "props" feet ; lean back in your chair; 

 light up your pipe or cigar, and just about the time you are ready to 

 fall into the arms of Morpheus your alarm clock (crickets) will go off. 

 The house is now warm, and it is about time you woke up and looked 

 after the old flannel shirt and old coat that you placed in your closet 

 last October every garment a sieve particularly the flannel shirt 

 and nothing in the pockets of your old coat except great, big, fat 

 crickets. PHILIP LAURENT.. . 



A FEW NOTES ON ORTHOPTERA FOUND DURING THE EARLY SPRING 

 AND LATE FALL ABOUT NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. As early as the 

 first of June in an average season, I have found that practically no 

 adult specimens of Orthoptera can be found in this region, but by the 

 middle of that month adults of a number of species may be secured. 



