ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., January, 1904. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell has made a suggestion which we 

 considered well worthy of being adopted by the News. In- 

 stead of placing on the cover of the News what he was 

 pleased to term a monstrosity, he proposed a figure of the most 

 interesting insect described during the previous year, and .said 

 that in his opinion Ignotus ^nigmaticus, 

 Slosson,* was pre-eminently the one to 

 use for this year, and we coincided in 

 this opinion. This curious beetle was de- 

 scribed by Mrs. Slo.sson in the Canadian 

 Entomologist, vol. 35, page 183, and the 

 account of its discovery is interesting 

 reading. That most eminent savant, Mr. 

 E. A. Schwarz, had the figure made for 

 the News. We have always found him 

 more than willing to do anything to un- 

 selfishly advance the interests of entomo- 

 logy. In the future we propose to adopt 

 the same plan of using a figure of the most interesting insect de- 

 scribed during the previous year, for the cover of the January 

 News, and will be glad to receive any and all suggestions as 

 to which species shall be selected. The selection will be made 

 by the Editors in conjunction with the Advisory Committee. 



* Described as being the size of a tiny brown ant. 



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