%\t Canabian Entomologist. 



VOL. VII. LONDON, ONT., JANUARY, 1875. No. 1 



OUR SEVENTH VOLUME. 



With the present issue we enter 'upon the seventh year of our existence. 

 On looking back over our past career, we see abundant reason for thank- 

 fulness and encouragement ; from small beginnings we have grown to a 

 respectable sized periodical, while in mechanical execution, typography, 

 paper, <x:c., we give precedence to none. The completion of our past 

 volume and the advent of the present number have been delayed by 

 untoward circumstances beyond the time intended, but we are making a 

 fresh start now, and hope by persevering effort to catch up lost time and 

 issue regularly hereafter. To meet the wishes of several of our friends 

 who desired to have certain material printed before the close of the sixth 

 volume, we published last month a double number, consisting of forty 

 pages with index added, so that our readers have been dealt with more 

 liberally than we had promised, having received a volume of 260 instead 

 of 240 pages. Many kind friends have helped us in the past with their 

 contributions, and we gratefully observe that the number of helpers is 

 increasing, as is shown by the recently issued list of contributors to the 

 sixth volume ; we trust that none of these will weary in well-doing, but 

 continue their needed assistance and enlist their friends as far as possible 

 in the same service. Original observations on the habits and life history 

 of insects are especially desired, to make our journal still more useful and 

 interesting. With the kind aid of our coadjutors, we shall endeavor to 

 continue the papers on our common insects, which will, as heretofore, be 

 accompanied by suitable illustrations, and shall, as far as possible, provide 

 in each issue other material which will interest the general reader. 



We would also take this opportunity of reminding our subscribers that 

 subscriptions for the new volume are now due, and will be thankfully 

 received by the Secretary, Mr. J. H. McMechan, London, Ont. It is 

 with pleasure, also, that we inform our many correspondents that by the 

 recent postal arrangements entered into by the United States and Canadian 

 authorities, all letters mailed after the first of February will require a three 

 cc stamp only to carry them from any part of the States to any part of 

 Caix.ida and vice versa, instead of six cents, as heretofore ; post cards also 

 will pass from one country to the other without the additional stamp. 



