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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1898. 



A LETTER TO THE NEWS. 



' I suppose I am one of a fairly numerous class who make the 

 collection of insects a pastime and not a very serious study 

 ' mere collectors' I suppose we should be called. Nevertheless, 

 what we see we know, and if we never get far beyond the ento- 

 mological A B C it is not so much because we do not care to, as 

 it is because business and other cares which ' will not down' are 

 too tyrannical. All we know must come from observation, and 

 we haven't much time for that the literature of our hobby is 

 scarce and expensive, and over our heads as well. 



" What we want in a periodical is the relation of the experi- 

 ences of others of our class. If some fellow has a 'sugar' which 

 he finds attracts more Catocalae than any other he has tried we'd 

 like to know his recipe. We'd like to hear of another's expe- 

 riences in rearing the more common species perhaps ihe suc- 

 cessful method of one will show another how he failed. We 

 want to read of various methods of preserving pupae over Win- 

 ter. We would like descriptions of the perfect insect in cases 

 where species differ enough from each other to make a written 

 description of any value, and we want these things not once in a 

 while, but every month. li we ' mere collectors' could have 

 two pages a month devoted to us we would gladly take our 

 chances on getting something of value out of the rest of the 

 issue. Of course you can't bother to edit and publish a paper 



