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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Published monthly (except July and August), in charge of the joint 

 publication committees of the Entomological Section of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, and the American Entomological 

 Society. It will maintain no free list whatever, but will leave no measure 

 untried to make it a necessity to every student of insect life, so that its 

 very moderate annual subscription may be considered well spent. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., June, 1897. 



This number of the News contains forty pages, which we 

 publish with a view of getting into print some of the many papers 

 we have on hand even if we do make an assignment at the close 

 of the year. If at least one entomological journal was properly 

 supported it would be possible to publish fifty pages a month, 

 but when many devotees of the study wont pay Si. 00 a year 

 plus those who subscribe or take the journal and have not paid 

 for this year, it makes it pretty hard to struggle along. Several 

 entomological journals in this country have ceased to live, and 

 some day we may publish their obituary notices, which will be 

 made up of the editorials in the last numbers, and make inter- 

 esting reading. 



Hybernation of Hvpena. — With regard to this subject (Ent. News, 

 viii, p. 59) it may be well to mention that the British H. rostralis L. habit- 

 ually hybernates, and I believe some other European species have the 

 same habit. — R. McLachlan. 



Prof. Lawrence Bruner, of the University of Nebraska, has sailed 

 for Buenos Ayres on a mission of conquest. He is going to teach the 

 Argentinians how to fight the armies of grasshoppers that are devastating 

 their wheat fields. The destruction of wheat by these pests in Argentina 

 and Uruguay last year has been estimated at 23,000,000 bushels. If Prof. 

 Bruner shall put a check upon this enormous destruction he will not 

 achieve such fame as the great soldiers who prove most expert at what 

 Thackeray called "the noble art of murdering," but he will deserve more 

 than they. 



