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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., November, 1899. 



There is nothing like the amount of exchanging of specimens 

 going on among entomologists as there should be, and one of 

 the reasons for this is careless collecting. The person that is 

 careful and neat does not care to have his or her collection 

 marred by ragged and flown specimens and is thus deterred 

 from exchanging. Many also think they have little to ex- 

 change, but such is not the case, as there is probably no local- 

 ity in this country that does not produce some desirable spe- 

 cies. The local collector should make a special effort to get 

 four or five good species in abundance and in faultless condi- 

 tion, and there would be very little question but what many 

 peraons would be glad to have a set, no matter how long they 

 have been collecting. The writer of this notice has been col- 

 lecting for about thirty years, yet he never fails to replace poor 

 specimens by better ones as opportunity offers. Let the be- 

 ginners and even advanced students try this plan and put 

 their exchange notices in The News and the results will doubt- 

 less be gratifying; As an example, a Philadelphia lepidop- 

 terist could put in a notice like this : ^^ I have faultless exam- 

 ples of Papilio turnus glaucus ; Anthocharis genutia ; Argynnis 

 bellona sjid idalia; Pieris protodice ; Terias nicippe ; Neonympha 

 canthus ; Thecla augustus, Pamphila massasoit, metea, zabulon.^^ 

 Now we feel quite sure there are many persons who would be 

 glad to get a set of some of these species in faultless condition 

 in exchange for some of those they could get equally perfect. 

 ^One fine specimen is worth no end of trash." 



