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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1907. 



For several years it has been our custom to figure the most 

 interesting or remarkable insect described during the year and 

 illustrate it on the cover of the January NEWS. We have 

 asked for suggestions in regard to this matter, but for the year 



Synlomeida bcfana Skinner. 



just closed we have had none. The species figured here is 

 probably not by any means the most remarkable but it was 

 available and so here it is. Prof. F. H. Snow discovered the 

 species in the Baboquivari Mountains in Arizona. It was 

 described in this journal on page 379, Dec., 1906. 



The great necessity for economy of time and energy in 

 routine work in entomology is painfully apparent. This is lin- 

 age of insects and many of us fullv recognize the great value 

 of the study. The subject is such a vast one and the workers 

 so comparatively few, that the necessity for modern aids of 



