JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



AUGUST, 1913 



The editors will thankfully receive news items and other matter likely to be of in- 

 terest to subscribers. Papers will be published, so far as possible, in the order of re- 

 ception. All extended contributions, at least, should be in the hands of the editor the 

 first of the month preceding publication. Contributors are requested to supply electro- 

 types for the larger illustrations so far as possible. The receipt of all papers will be 

 acknowledged. — Eds. 



The Entomological Society of Ontario will be celebrating its semi- 

 centennial about as this number appears. The half century has been 

 a period of progress and much of accomplishment must be credited 

 to the residents north of a line political — not racial, social or faunal. 

 Their problems are our problems. The long series of reports of this 

 society and the numerous volumes of Canadian Entomologist contain 

 a host of records concerning American insects, data of great value 

 to all students of entomology. The organization may rightfully claim 

 the honor of founding and supporting the oldest regularly issued en- 

 tomological serial in the New World. This achievement alone is 

 worthy of high praise. We are quite certain that all active entomolo- 

 gists, both economic and systematic, would gladly join in the felicities 

 of the occasion and congratulate most heartily our Canadian friends 

 on the record of the past and the even more brilliant prospects of the 

 future. 



There was a time when an entomologist was regarded as a man of 

 limited outlook or at least a trifle narrow and inconsequential. Now 

 certain entomological specialists appear to look upon the general 

 student of insect life as a somewhat trifling jack-of-all-trades who 

 accomplishes little of real value. There is more or less truth in both 

 of these attitudes. American entomologists of the practical persua- 

 sion are mostly specialists and perhaps never happier than when 

 learning new life histories or ascertaining hitherto undreamed of bio- 

 logical relationships. Such investigations, limited as they are to indi- 

 vidual insects or more or less natural groups add, and add greatly 

 to the sum of human knowledge and do much to increase the honor 

 accorded the profession both in this country and abroad. There is 

 such a thing as getting too close to a problem. It is possible to spend 

 all our energy fighting an insect or studying individual pests so that 

 no time or strength can be given to the broader prophylactic measures. 

 International quarantine is excellent as a preventive though of little 

 service after a pest has become well established. Why is one insect 



