Announcement 
This, the first number of the JournaL or HNTOMOLOGY AND 
Zootoey in its changed form, starts a new period for the 
publication. 
It is the hope of the editor to have this journal largely ento- 
mological in character, but with some consideration given to 
groups of animals other than insects. It is the plan to have 
general and special papers so far as possible in each issue. We 
hope that many who are not specialists in entomology may find 
much to interest them in these pages. We wish to have the 
publication broadly zoological and yet at the same time it is 
the desire to have the journal encourage the work of western 
America with many of the particular problems and interests of 
southern California in mind. There will be economic papers 
to some degree as well as systematic and morphological studies, 
but the journal will not of course attempt to enter the field of 
the state and national bulletins. It is hoped, however, that the 
work of the journal may join with that of these more directly 
practical publications and by bringing forth more largely tech- 
nical results and those of a broader range, contribute its share 
towards the good of the state and country and the advancement 
of science. Not every article in every number will be of 
interest to every one, but some part in each number should be 
of value to any one who has anything to do with insects either 
in an economic or scientific way and those who are interested in 
zoology will, we believe, find in this journal ample returns for 
their subscriptions. The periodical has subscribers in all parts 
of the world and we hope to greatly increase the number of 
these. This increase we feel will come to us as time goes on 
because science is not restricted in its problems or its interests. 
