JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



OCTOBER, 1910 



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. Reprints may be obtained at cost. Con- 

 tributors are requested to supply electrotypes for the larger illustrations so far as pos- 

 sible. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged.— Eds. 



The wide dissemination of scientific matter, particularly of an 

 economic character, is highly desirable. There has been a gratifying 

 advance along this line in recent years. This is especially true of the 

 agricultural press. Late discoveries respecting insects and their part 

 in the dissemination of disease has stimulated the demand for this 

 type of information, and magazines of standing are giving considerable 

 space to various phases of the work. We recently noted in one monthly 

 of excellent standing, a caution respecting the admission of even a 

 single fly into the house, the statement being made that such was 

 very likely to result in a large multiplication and consequent abun- 

 dance of the pest. The obvious inference from the context was that 

 the flies multiplied in the house, and we have since been wondering in 

 what section of the country the author resided. We have not been 

 privileged so far to enter many American homes where flies would 

 multiply indoors to any great extent, at least. About the same time 

 another magazine published an excellent article on South African 

 locusts or grasshoppers, accompanying it by a fine series of illustra- 

 tions showing the transformations of our so-called 17-year locust or 

 periocUcal Cicada. There was no direct statement to the effect that 

 the illustrations represented an insect substantially identical with the 

 South African locust, yet the lay reader would be justified in assuming 

 such to be the case. Errors are to be expected in the daily and weekly 

 press and are sometimes unavoidable in the presumably more carefully 

 edited monthhes. Our popular magazines are doing an excellent 

 work in giving much attention to practical or applied entomology and 

 we feel that this should not be marred by such obvious errors as those 

 cited above. 



The proceedings of the annual meeting, assembled in early Jan- 

 uary, means an abundance of copy for the February and April 

 issues, with possibly some papers read by title only being carried 

 over to June. Notes for the year from various sections of the 

 country are very useful records, and as a rule there should be little 



