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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 contain not less than 300 pages per annum. It will main- 

 lain 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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B^" All remittances should be addressed to E. T. Cresson-, Treasurer, 

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 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Philadelphia, Pa., April, 1894. 



THE NEW ENTOMOLOGY. 



The above is tiie title of the annual address delivered before the En- 

 tomological Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, England, Jan. 8, 1894, 

 by \V. E. Sharp, from which we quote : " Entomology is comparatively 

 an old science, but it must be apparent that of recent years the study has 

 assumed a wider horizon, and taken to itself new and perhaps even more 

 fascinating methods." With all respect to the past masters in Eiitomology, 

 how limited was their sense of domain they were investigating. Patient 

 and reliable as were their researches, valuable as was the knowledge of 

 Nature they acquired and bequeathed to us, they never seemed to trouble 

 themselves about the meaning, the why of phenomena, the how; the 

 methods of things were enough for them. The disciples of the past sup- 

 posed that when every insect form in the world had been described and 

 catalogued, and the whole of the order finally and unanimously arranged 

 in methodical series of divisions then their purpose would be accomplished 

 and their occupation gone. We, on the contrary, know that even with 

 such perfected work our real labors would be but begun. 



A Collection Note. — On February 25th, three collectors near New- 

 ark took the following specimens around the base of trees. Any number 

 of Notiophilus sibiricus, Dyschyriiis globiilosus, Benibidiiint cotistrictutn, 

 B. 4-inaculatian; between fifty and sixty Metabletus aniericamis, also 

 Afieties sitmata, Platyniis nietallescetts, Dromiuspiceus, Cryptarcha anipla, 

 Pandeletejus hilaris, Quedius vernix, besides a considerable number of 

 Staphylinidae, which have not yet been identified. — E. A. Bischoff. 



