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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., March, 1899. 

 E.DITORIAL. 



Prof. Smith, in his obituary notice of the late Mr, Hubbard, 

 in this number, says : ''A pupil of Mr. Schwarz in methods 

 of collecting, he soon equaled his master, while in getting at 

 the really charaeteristic fauna of a region he was unexcelled.^ ^ 

 There are few collecting entomologists in this countrj^ that 

 have this happy faculty of getting at the characteristic fauna, 

 and it is this and this alone that is of value in the study of 

 geographical regions and the distribution of si)ecies. The 

 ordinary superficial collector picks up all the cosmopolitan 

 species and all the showy things that are widely distributed, 

 and often overlooks everything else. Some time ago the 

 writer received a small collection of butterflies from Tucson, 

 Arizona, and there was not a single species in the lot that is 

 not found in Pennsylvania. Another lot from Arizona was 

 almost entirely made up of common Eastern species. We are 

 constantly in receipt of local lists for publication in The News 

 that show this defect of superficial collecting, and, therefore, 

 they are hardly worth the room they take up. Mr. Hubbard's 

 letters and field notes will be published in The News, and, 

 doubtless, much information on these x>oints will be available 

 from this prince of collectors. We wish our collectors of expe- 

 rience would publish more about their methods, for the bene- 

 fit of the entomological fraternity. 



