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EDITORIAL COMMENT. 



For several years the question of [)ublishing an American magazine 

 devoted to general Entomology has been under discussion through the 

 medium of private correspondence among leading friends of science. 

 This question was brought before the Entomological Club of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, at their last 

 meeting, in Philadelphia, last September. A committee appointed to 

 consider this matter {Psyche, The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological 

 Society, and Papii.io were represented by their editors) reported ad- 

 \-ersely; not so much on account of their disaj^proval of the plan, as 

 on account of their unwillingness to commit the Club to what in their 

 opinion could not fail to prove a failure. 



Before this meeting Papilio, so far as its ]:)rcsent management was 

 concerned, was doomed. An ai)pcal to its subscribers, two months 

 before, not for alms, but for money justly its due, had been answered 

 by the receipt of the money owed it by three subscribers; in other 

 woxA^ the princely S2im of six dollars \-\3.d, been added to its treasury, 

 though much o\'er $150 was needed, and nearly |i200 was due. 



It was. therefore, with much pleasure that the editor was informed 

 by the representatives of the Brooklyn Society that they stood readv 

 to publish a monthly de\'oted to general Entomology, provided Pa- 

 pilio would discontinue, and would hand its subscription list over to 

 the new journal. This \\as immediately agreed to; it was a great 

 relief to look forward to such a speedy termination of a very unpleas- 

 ant undertaking, viz. : giving alms to those who needed it not. 



Since that agreement two numbers of Entomologia Americana ha\'e 

 appeared. It bids fair to be a \aluable addition to the list of Entomo- 

 logical periodicals, and we trust that the subscribers to P.\pilio will 

 do all in their power to aid it. It is not, as some suppose, a successor 

 to Papilio; it is simply a new periodical which will attempt to satisfy 

 the same want that was filled by this journal. This it can hardly ex- 

 pect to do; it will not have the room for papers on Lepidoptera 

 alone that has been afforded by P.M'ii.io, as it will contain but few 

 more pages than this journal, and as Coleoptera and the other orders 

 are to be placed on an equal footing with Lepidoptera. In this 

 respect it will follow its predecessor. The Brooklyn Bulletin; we ma\ 

 be pardoned, however, if we express the hope that in matters of tv- 

 pography and attention to the printers' art it will more closely follow 

 Papilio than any other model that it may have before it. 



With this number P.vpilio ceases to exist. Its editor, being a young 

 man, hopes to live many years to remember with gratitude the many 



