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VOL. V. LONDON, ONT., JANUARY, 1873. No. 1 



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It has been our custom at the commencement of a new volume to 

 offer our hearty greetings to our friends and correspondents, to all who 

 read the Canadian Entomologist. — to all, indeed, who take a kindly 

 interest in the success of cur journal and the welfare of our Society. 

 This year we do so most cordially, with not a little pardonable pride, 

 when we remember that it is for the fifth time. Four years and a half 

 have elapsed since we ventured to put forth our diminutive first number 

 that consisted merely of eight pages ; with our last December number we 

 completed our fourth volume and eight-hundredth page of Entomological 

 matter ! 



A complaint has once or twice reached us lately to the effect that our 

 publication was gradually becoming too technical, and consequently of 

 decreasing interest to a large number of our readers, who, from various 

 causes, are unable to become deep students of the science, but who take 

 great delight in learning all they can respecting the economy and classifi- 

 cation of the insects of the country. We must confess that the complaint 

 is not unfounded, and that we have almost unconsciously drifted some- 

 what away from the design of the periodical. It has always been our 

 intention and desire to meet the requirements, if possible, of two classes 

 of readers — those, on the one hand, who are leaders in the pursuit of 

 Entomology, and who, therefore wish to have presented to them in 

 convenient form all discoveries of new species and other valuable 

 scientific information that may from time to time be acquired by their 

 fellows, — and those, on the other hand, who collect and study insects to 

 some extent, but are not yet far advanced in the pursuit ; or who merely 

 regard insects as destructive or beneficial and therefore wish to know 

 something about them ; or, again, who take pleasure in learning all they 

 can about these creatures without either collecting or specially studying 

 them. To meet the particular requirements of all these various 

 descriptions of readers would, of course, be a perfect impossibility in a 

 periodical of such limited size as ours ; at the same time we think that 



