189I.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. II9 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 



OF THE GLOBE. 



[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.] 



In the future all papers received for publication in the Ne'^vs Tvill be 

 printed according^ to date of reception. 



To OUR Patrons. — We want to increase the number of pages of En- 

 tomological News and thereby augment its usefulness. To do this we 

 must obtain a larger number of subscribers and thereby increase the in- 

 come. There are doubtless many persons in this country who are inter- 

 ested in the study of Entomology, who have not yet heard of the existence 

 of such a journal as Entomological News, and who would probably 

 become subscribers if their attention were called to it. The question is, 

 how to reach these persons ? It has been suggested that each subscriber 

 make a list of the names and addresses of all whom he or she know are 

 interested in the study and send it to the Editor, that a sample copy may 

 be sent to all who are not already on the subscription-list, as an invitation 

 to subscribe. This is a good suggestion, and we therefore ask our sub- 

 scribers to assist us in this way. As another method of increasing the list, 

 we have concluded to offer premiums for new subscribers, and call atten- 

 tion to this in a notice to be found on the second page of the cover of this 

 number of the News. 



The ideal entomological journal is one that covers the whole field, 

 and each number should contain matter that will please all its readers. 

 The dry scientific article should have a place along with that of a more 

 popular and lighter vein. A journal, any number of which is made up 

 largely of a dry synopsis of a single family in an order, is of value to only 

 a very few readers, and the large remainder are disappointed and obliged 

 to wait another month in hopes of finding something more tempting. 

 The subscribers are made up of the professional entomologist, the sys- 

 tematist, the lover of nature in general, the amateur entomologist, those 

 interested in Entomology in general, those interested in a single order, 

 the student and the beginner, and the scope of a journal should be such 

 and the paging sufficient in each number to supply readable matter for all. 

 The lepidopterist, the hymenopterist, or the neuropterist, cares little for 

 an article on some obscure family of beetles, and the coleopterist is equally, 

 dissatisfied with the same program in the other orders; therefore, the ideal 

 journal is one that covers the subject from A to Z; or, to give an illustra- 

 tion, the int^rgrades may be filled in between to such articles as thes^ 

 " Notes on the Genitalia of Gynandromorphous Macro-lepidoptera" and 

 " There was an old man in a tree 

 Who was horribly bored by a bee. 

 When asked ' Does it buzz?' 

 He replied, ' Yes, it does, 

 It's a regular brute of a bee.' " Er>. 



