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Philadelphia, Pa., February, 1902. 



With the advent of the New Year I looked hopefully for the 

 first issue of the new volume of the News. I little expected 

 to be jarred by the unseemly figure which adorns the first page 

 of the cover of the January issue, bearing the absurd name of 

 Quisnam sexcaudatus f Of course, Mr. Editor, if the News 

 intends to supersede some of our comic weeklies, I suppose 

 my protest, for such this is, is out of place. But for an ento- 

 mological journal, whose aim should be not to cast ridicule on 

 the study but to frown down such, to present an absurdity on 

 its front page is too much for my dignity. But if I am mis- 

 taken in the object of this levity, pray pardon me. Perhaps 

 the figure has been adopted as a sort of trade-mark of your 

 otherwise excellent journal. But, if you will allow me, the 

 anal aspect of even a dipterous larva is far from being an edi- 

 fying sight. ■ Subscriber. 



This note was received from a distinguished Hymenopterist, 

 and of course merits our attention. If he were " jarred by the 

 unseemly figure," it was because it was not a hymenopterous 

 insect, and the more chagrined because he evidently took it to 

 be a " fake" in.sect, which it is not. He was evidently jarred 

 when he found out that what he took for a [name] , ''Quisnam,^' 

 means what is it? and " sexcaudatus," six tailed. Now, inas- 

 much as the figure is not a fake, it is not out of place in a dig- 

 nified entomological journal, and therefore a comic weekly 

 would not want it. It is an interesting and valuable study in 



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