ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., April, 1901. 



Improvements in photographic illustrating in entomology 

 are still being made and will doubtless go on until the method 

 becomes perfect. As we have already said, the one great 

 feature attained is mechanically correct maculation and con- 

 tour. The color-screen and isochromatic plates give fairly 

 correct color values, even for reds and yellows. By exposing 

 a number of plates a perfect negative may be obtained. If the 

 specimens are pinned on little corks, gummed on glass, shadows 

 may be eliminated. 



We often have photographs sent us with large unsightly 

 labels showing. Such labels should always be removed before 

 the photograph is made. The great objection to the three 

 color process at present is the expense, but doubtless the cost 

 will be reducted by competition just as it was in the case of 

 the ordinary half-tone. The News desires to continue to 

 maintain a high standard in this kind of work, as it believes in 

 the great future and value to entomology along this line. 



Notes and. News 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 

 Nicholas Kusnezow in speaking of Libythea celtis sa.ys : " The but- 

 terfly in repose exactly resembles a dead leaf, just as many tropical 

 Rhopalocera act, with the famous Kallivia inachis at the head. The cir- 

 cumstances that Libythea celtis makes use of its palpi and antennae for 



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