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ENTOM OLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., September, 1894, 



TO OUR FRIENDS. 



Now that the Summer is over, and that this is usually the time for every 

 one to start work again, a few ideas that the season calls forth may not 

 be amiss. How many of us have properly captured our specimens ? and 

 how many have ruined them ? How many have put the exact locality 

 and date on paper? and how many have not? How many have made 

 observations on their work for publication in the News ? We hope all 

 have. As stated, most people begin serious work after the Summer heat, 

 about September ist, but we would caution our entomological friends 

 against ceasing to collect at this time, as some of the best collecting and 

 some of the rarest captures are to be made during September and part 

 of October. We hope you all have had a pleasant Summer and many 

 enjoyable days with the net in field and woods, and that renewed health 

 and strength and enjoyment of the beauties of nature may be the outcome 

 of your hobby. Those in charge of the News have had a little recreation 

 and a chance to do some entomological work for themselves and are now 

 prepared to begin their labors again in your behalf. We hope you will 

 aid us all you can. Our work is a labor of love, and we trust it is appre- 

 ciated. The News needs additional subscribers to enable us to make it 

 all we desire, and if each present subscriber would get some entomo- 

 logical friend to send in his or her subscription it would be showing a 

 practical interest which would materially help us. 



Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. xxi. No. 

 3, how in press, will contain the following papers: New species of Noc- 

 tuidae from tropical America, by W. Schaus. Catalogue of the described 

 Jassoidea of North America, by Edw. P. Van Duzee. Descriptions of 

 new Parasitic Hymenoptera, I, by Wm. H. Ashmead. 



