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AN EXPLANATION. 



Our last number was a double one, and as this unusual issue has 

 caused considerable inquiry we desire to explain. Late in September 

 we received word that the Manuscript of the Proceedings of the Ento- 

 mological Club was on the way to us, and as we were desirous of getting 

 some of this in, we delayed the printer until its arrival. The manuscript 

 hail been mailed bv Prof. Lintner in Albany on the 4th or 5th of Octo- 

 ber — it was after the 20th when we received it. — By that time we had 

 given it up as lost, and had set the printer to work on other matter. Then, 

 as late would have it, the big press met with an accident and was in the 

 hospital for two weeks or thereabouts. The first of the month had long 

 passed, and we decided as the manuscript was then all at hand, to issue 

 a double number. The accumulation of work caused by the breakage 

 of the press caused more delay, and finally when the proof came in it was 

 read in a hurry, once only — as a result more mistakes than usual crept 

 in. and we present a page of errata — no proofs were sent to authors and 

 they are not responsible lor errors. 



The numerous letters received by us soon after October 1st showed 

 how much our friends had learned to rely on the prompt appearance of 

 the paper, and this explanation is made to them in the hope that we 

 may never have occasion to make another. 



ERRATA. 



Page 138, for genns, line 7 from bottom, aad germs. 

 " 139, " Malt hodus, line 4 read Malthodes for smaller in, line 20 read 



smaller than in. 

 " 141, for Overthur, line n read Oherthiir. 

 " 144, line 15, for 55 read 25. 



" " 34, '• I. W, Fyles read T. W. Fyles. 

 " 45, " 14, " preparations '• preparation. 

 '• " 32, " 1866 read 1886. 



•'38, " Edward read Edwards. 

 '• " •' 40. " p. 192 read i, p. 92. 

 " " " 41, " 102 read 101. 

 " 147 " 9, " xviii " xvii. 



" 17, "as. carpet feeder read a-- a carpet-feeder. 

 " " " 32, " also read lias also. 



" 34, '■ Goleopa read Gcelopa. 

 " " 36, " collection read collati >n. 

 " 148, " 7, " Transaction read Transactions, 

 " " lines 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, the brackets should be parentheses. 

 ,, " line 22. for A. L. Packard read A. S. Packard. 



