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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa,, April, 1899. 

 EDITORIAL. 



We are very busy people here at the Academy, and we 

 niiLSt catch the moments as they fly. We haven't the time to 

 read all the journals that come here ; and, in fact, we are not 

 interested in all the subjects of which they treat. However, 

 we do like to look over the journals devoted to entomology, 

 both for our pleasure and profit, as we may wish to jot down 

 a record or two of some interesting- new point or other. We 

 don't feel inclined to look through every page of a journal, as 

 that is wasteful of our precious time, but in some cases it is a 

 necessity, especially for the compiler of the literature, as some 

 journals do not publish an index to their contents. After 

 much circumlocution we have arrived at the point. Among 

 our distinguished contemporaries who merit our dire dis- 

 pleasure in this respect maybe mentioned the '^Entomologist's 

 Record and Journal of Variation ' ' and the ' ' Canadian En- 

 tomologist.'' Could one imagine ''Psyche" without its table 

 of contents on the cover page ? Such a thing is inconceivable 

 and would be like trying to find a paper published by the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. At once one's brain would 

 begin to seethe with Old Series, Xew Series, Special Series 

 and other combinations we can't unravel. 



