ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. l 



JANUARY, 1890. 



No. I. 



CONTENTS 



Announcement 1 



Cockerel!— On Metallic Colors 3 



Skinner — On Collecting at Cape May... 6 



Horn — Notes on Coleoptera 9 



Notes and News 10 



Entomological Literature 13 



Exchanges 16 



ANNOUNCENIENT. 



It has for some time been apparent to Entomologists in this 

 country that there was unoccupied room for a journal of Ento- 

 mology devoted less to the dry details of descriptive and classi- 

 ficatory work and more to the news and gossip which is always of 

 interest to entomological workers. The field of descriptive en- 

 tomology is already well filled by journals published in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., and London, Ontario; that of economic entomology by 

 a governmeat publication at Washington, and the bibliographic 

 department has received special attention at Cambridge, Mass. 

 None of these journals allude systematically to the important 

 work always in progress in Europe anci elsewhere, nor do they 

 by any means regularly notice such work appearing here from 

 time to time. News of this sort is of great value to the student 

 of Entomology even if he is near one of the large libraries; to 

 those remote from these centres of information it can not fail to 

 be of the utmost importance. A journal which will keep ento- 



