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PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1910. 



We have received the following letter from a former sub- 

 scriber and, as it is like some others we have received, it may 

 prove enlightening to comment on it. We are glad to get such 

 letters as we always try to improve the NEWS and please our 

 subscribers whenever it is possible. 



"I suppose you would like to know why I have not sent in 

 my subscription for this year. I deeply regret that in the past 

 few years the.re has been so little in it along the line of my 

 work, Lepidoptera. I have been hoping you would print some- 

 thing on the Noctuidae. It seems to be devoted to orders other 

 than Eepidoptera. I know you can't cater wholly to this branch 

 but if you could give only one plate a month figuring Noctuids 

 not in Holland's Moth Book, especially moths of the eastern 

 United States, it would be a great help to we amateurs who 

 have no State collection or others to help us identify our speci- 

 mens. I, for one, do not like to bother specialists to name my 

 specimens." 



It would be interesting to go over the NEWS for the last five 

 years and see what proportion of the journal has been devoted 

 to Lepidoptera. If there is less on Lepidoptera than formerly 

 that is the fault of the Lepidopterists, as the editors do not write 

 the NEWS but only edit it. Now suppose we take our Eastern 

 Noctuidist seriously and give him a three color half-tone each 

 month. The cost of such a plate would be $50 and the cost for 

 the volume would be $500. Now will our former subscriber 



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