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the wild carrot {Daucus carota L.), goldenrod and aster. Like 7iigri- 

 cornis the eggs are deposited in rows, but the insect seems to prefer 

 stems and stalks of five millimeters or less in which to place them. 



President W. D. Hunter: Any discussion on this paper? 



Mr. W. E. Britton: Which species lays eggs in rows on the peach 

 trees? 



Mr. p. J. Parrott: That is Oecanthus nigricornis. 



A Member: Do you know of a species which lays three or four eggs 

 deposited on either side of a wound? 



Mr. p. J. Parrott: This is the work of another species which we 

 hope to study.' It is apparently a southern species. 



President W. D. Hunter: The next paper is by Mr. R. L. Webster 

 on, "The Arrangement of the Material for an Entomological Bulletin." 



THE ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIAL IN AN ENTOMOLOGI- 

 CAL BULLETIN 



By R. L. Webster 



Several years ago, when preparing an outline for a bulletin, it struck 

 me that the usual order of arrangement of matter in entomological 

 bulletins in general was not that demanded by an economic treatment. 

 It seemed to me that it was quite unnecessary to thrust on the farmer 

 and fruit-grower a detailed account of the past history, the synonymy, 

 the stages and the habits of an insect, before giving him a word con- 

 cerning the control measures; the thing in which, presumably, he is 

 most vitally interested. And I had heard the complaint that "we 

 can't find things in the bulletins," for which there must have been a 

 reason. 



With this idea in mind I attempted to work out an arrangement by 

 which an insect could be treated of in a more logical manner, from an 

 economic standpoint ; an order that would throw the popular treatment 

 and the control measures in the fore part of the bulletin, where they 

 may be seen easily, and place all the more technical matter in the latter 

 part. 



Most of the entomological bulletins published in this country have 

 been concerned with individual species of insects although bulletins 

 which consider insects in economic or systematic groups have not 

 been uncommon. Of these last I am not so directly concerned in this 

 paper, which will refer, for the most part, to a bulletin considering a 

 single insect; in other words, to a monographic bulletin. 



The usual order in a bulletin of this kind is an historical one, which 

 first treats of the insect's past history, its destructiveness, and the 



