ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, 



[The Conductors of Entomological News solicit and will thankfully receive items 

 of news likely to interest its readers from any source. The author's name will be given 

 in each case, for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] 



To Contributors.— All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our 

 earliest convenience, and, as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- 

 tion. Entomological News has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer- 

 ence, as to make it necessary to put " copy " into the hands of the printer, for each num- 

 ber, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or 

 important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five " extras," without change in form, 

 will be given free, when they are wanted ; and this should be so stated on the MS., along 

 with the number desired. The receipt of alt papers will be acknowledged. — Ed. 



Philadelphia, Pa., November, 1903. 



We are pleased to see that there is a steady increase in the 

 number of type-written manuscripts that come to the News. 

 We would like very much to make an inflexible rule that all 

 articles sent to the News must be type- written. Quite a 

 number of authors are very careless in writing the names of 

 insects. Because they know the names, they think every one 

 should, and they put the work of translation on the editors. 

 Not infrequently we have wished that we could • have left the 

 articles as the printer has set them up, as an object lesson. 

 We are also greatly annoyed at the way some persons sign 

 their names and write their addresses. They think that .since 

 they know their own name and where they live, every one- 

 else does. Type- written copy makes the compositor's work 

 much easier and reduces the labor of proof reading. Even the 

 signatures or names of persons should be type- written, and 

 where necessary, they could also be hand-written. We not 

 infrequently get letters and words in letters that are almost 

 conducive to profanity. It is to be hoped that hand-writing 

 will soon be a matter of the past, and the only thing left of 

 it the signature of the person, where individuality or identity 

 is necessary. We have some MS. on hand now that gives 

 us ' ' that tired feeling ' '^and desire for a tonic of some kind 

 when we try to read it. Sometimes we just shut our eyes 

 and send it to the printer with a sigh. 



303 



