268 [November, 



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- 

 tain 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. 



ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION $1.00, IN ADVANCE. 



Outside of the United States and Canada $1.20. 



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

 P. O. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.; all other communications to the Editors 

 of Entomological News, Academy of Natural Sciences, Logan Square, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Philadelphia, Pa., November, i8g6. 



The financial depression of the past two years has been uni- 

 versally felt, and journals devoted to entomology are perhaps no 

 exception. Former subscribers have written us that they really 

 could not afibrd to pay our small subscription price as they needed 

 every cent for absolute necessities. We feel this all the more, as 

 in the past every penny of surplus has gone into improvements, 

 increased number of pages and illustrations. We hope our 

 friends will do their utmost to help swell our subscription lists as 

 •we would dislike to raise the price of the News, and are willing 

 to give a two-dollar journal for a dollar il we possibly can. We 

 want an " honest dollar" in return, and after the "gold bugs" 

 and the "silver bugs" have had their fracas and decided on the 

 supremacy of one or the other, we hope ordinary every-day in- 

 sects may settle down to a comfortable prosperity. 



Termites bored through the lead pipe and the cotton and jute insu- 

 lating envelope enclosing the Tonkin cable in less than a year. M. Bou- 

 vier, who has investigated the matter and reported on it recently to the 

 Acad^mie des Sciences, recommends that the cotton and jute be steeped 

 in a solution of sulphate of copper as a protection. 



