ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS solicit and will thank- 

 fully receive items of news likely to interest its readers from any source. 

 The author's name will be given in each case, for the information of 

 cataloguers and bibliographers.] 



TO CONTRIBUTORS. All contributions will be considered and passed 

 upon at our earliest convenience, and, as far as may be, will be published 

 according to date of reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached 

 a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- 

 sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four 

 weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special 

 or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without 

 change in form, will be given free, when they are wanted; and this 

 should be so stated on the MS., along \yith the number desired. The 

 receipt of all papers will be acknowledged? Ed. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1911. 



In another place in this number attention has been called to 

 editorial changes in the NEWS staff and the hope has been ex- 

 pressed that the friends^nd supporters of this journal in the 

 past will continue their ^Rd as contributors to its pages and as 

 subscribers to its resources. We ask not only for the systematic, 

 life-history, anatomic and physiologic papers on insects, arach- 

 nids and myriopods, but also for the proceedings of entomolog- 

 ical clubs and societies and all notes, brief or longer, which, to 

 quote the original prospectus of the NEWS, dated December I, 

 1889, "will keep entomologists en rapport with what is being 

 accomplished in serials and by monographs at home and 

 abroad, and which will also give the items of interesting news 

 concerning explorations and explorers, collections and col- 

 lectors." 



NOTICE that after January 10, 1911, the NEWS 

 will be mailed only to those who have renewed their sub- 



scriptions. 



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SINCE the NEWS is not strictly adverse to the publication of non- 

 scientific entomological articles, I have to record a brief contribution 

 which may not be without interest. Most entomologists are, I pre- 

 sume, without sympathy for the average novel, but two recent books 

 from the pen of Gene Stratton-Porter, "Freckles"' and "A Girl of the 

 Limberlost," may not only offer some entertainment to Lepidopterists, 

 but the beginner may possibly gain some knowledge from them. Such 

 statements as are made in the latter work, however, that Citheronia 

 regalis is the rarest moth in America and "worth a dollar apiece" 

 are unfortunate, as they may prove misleading to any who might be 

 influenced by these two books to enter the study of entomology. 

 KARI, R. COOUDGE. 



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