ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JULY, 1911. 



The author of an article recently contributed to the NEWS 

 asks, "Could you not write a short editorial along the line of 

 indiscriminate naming of new species from one or two speci- 

 mens?" The topic is an old one and probably most of us who 

 have perpetrated descriptions of species novae have erred 

 "along the line" complained of by our correspondent. It may, 

 or it may not, be true that more of such mis judgments were 

 made in the days when collecting in the United States west of 

 the One Hundredth Meridian was attended with much risk to 

 the collector's scalp, and as a result of that risk long series of 

 varying specimens were the exception and not the rule. The 

 temptation to make known what appears to be undescribed has 

 always been strong in the possessor of an apparent rarity and, 

 on the other hand, not a few entomologists have regretted the 

 excess of caution whereby they or their friends have lost the 

 opportunity of being first in the field or in the printed page. 

 Here as elsewhere there is a golden mean to be sought, the 

 over-timid to be encouraged to press onward, the hasty to be 

 checked until it is certain that he has made himself acquainted 

 with the many sources of information before he commits him- 

 self and the journal to the announcement of a novelty. 



We would remind our readers of the statement printed on 

 the second page of the cover of each month's issue of the 

 NEWS that no numbers are published for August and Septem- 

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