THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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|^°The popular reader, who generally ob- 

 jects to the long crack-jaw scientiflu names of 

 insects, will lind that we always when possible 

 give the plain English names of such insects as 

 we have occasion to refer to, adding in a paren- 

 thesis (printed in italics) the Latin or scientific 

 names. To the entomologist, these last names 

 are an absolute necessity, because it is only 

 through the use of them that he is enabled to 

 know, with the requisite scientific precision, 

 what particular species we are talking about. 

 To the general reader, they need not be any 

 stumbling-block ; for he will always find that in 

 our columns he can skip over (he parenthesis 

 that contains them, without interfering iu any 

 wise with the full and complete meaning of the 

 sentence. By adopting this plan wo aim to 

 suit as far as possible both parties; namely, the 

 scientific man who is never satisfied unless he 

 knows the scientific appellation of the insect 

 that we are treating of, and the popular stu- 

 dent, who is generally annoyed and disgusted 

 by stumbling upon Latin phraseology which he 

 neither understands nor cares .about. 



liEllBl'OS. 

 In New York, the other evening, there was a 

 learned dissertation on the subject : " Bedbugs, 

 and their remarkable tomiciiy of life." One 

 asserted of his own knowledge" that they could 

 be boiled and come to life. "Sonie had "soaked 

 them for hours in turpentine without any fatal 

 consequences. Old Hanks, who had been list- 

 ening as an outsider, here gave in his experi- 

 ence in corroboration of the tacts. Says he: 

 " Some years ago I took a bedbug to an iron 

 foundry, and dropping it into a ladle where the 

 melted iron was, had it run into a skillet. "Well, 

 my old woman used that skillet pretty constant 

 for the last six years, and here the other day she 

 broke it all to smash; and what do you think, 

 gentlemen, that 'ere insect just walked out of 

 his hole, where he'd been layin' like a frog iu a 

 rock, and made tracks for bis old roost up stairs. 

 But," added he, byway of parenthesis, " bv 

 George, gentlemen, he looked inightv pale."— 

 Neuy York Republic. 



LNSECT DESTKOmC. ASSOCIATION. 

 Associations of this kind are being started in 

 New .Jersey, with a view to the more success- 

 ful cultivation of apples, pears, peaches, etc. 

 The object is to adopt a plan Avhich will work 

 to clear orchards of injurious insects of everv 

 kind. It is held that it" ev ry fruit-grower will 

 adopt some established means to rid bis or- 

 chards of these insects, and sedulously and hon- 

 estly attend to it, the culture of friiit will be 

 made a certainty and the profitableness of it will 

 satisfy the reasonable demands of every one. 

 It is farther held that all farmers and cultiva- 

 tors of fruit will be forced to come into the 

 measure on the principle of self-interest: that | 

 is, they must either destrov the insects or fail of | 

 Buccess. — Germantoum Telegraph. 



m OUR TABLE. 



Besides our regular exchanges we find on our 

 table the following publications, which we are 

 obliged to notice in the most curt manner, on 

 account of our limited space : 



! Eecouu of American Entomology fok thk 

 Year 1808, Edited by A. S. Packard, Jr., M. D., 

 Salem, Mass.— Naturalists' Book Agency. — A 



I work that has been greatly needed by American 



j Entomologists. This initiatory number is gotten 



I up in good style, and is just what it purports to 

 be, namely, a Y'ear Book of the Progress in 

 American Entomology during 1868. Dr. Pack- 



: ard has made a good beginning, and we hope 



he will keep the ball rolling from year to year. 



No one interested iu the study of insects can 



afl'ord to do without this Eecord. Price $1.00. 



The Canadian Entomologist. — "We are 



i pleased to learn of the success of this little con- 

 temporary. It will be found of great interest 



' and value, to the American as well as to the 

 Canadian entomologist. The number of pages 

 of reading matter has lately been doubled, and 

 each issue is embellished by a cover. As with 



' our own journal, the second volume of the 

 Canadian Entomologist is to end with the year 

 1870. Subscriptions received by the editor, 



\ Rev. C. J. S.Bethune, Credit, Ontario, Canada. 



\ Price .«1.00. 



Transactions of the American Entomologi- 

 cal SoriETV, "Vol. 2, No. .S. — This number has 

 been unexpectedly delayed by difficulties in 

 preparing the plates. It is freighted with inter- 

 esting and invaluable matter, and we only wisli 

 that the Entomologists of this country would 

 support it more liberally. (See advertisement on 

 the inside of cover.) 



Seventh Annual Report of the State 

 Board of Agriculture of the State of 

 Michigan. — Lansing, Mich, 1868. From San- 

 ford Howard, Secretary. 



The American Exchange and Review. — 

 A monthly Miscellany of Useful Knowledge 

 and fieneral Literature. Philadelphia. .$3.00 

 a year. 



The Occidental. — A monthly Journal of 

 Popular Homreopathy. St. Louis, Mo. .fl.OO 

 per annum. 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents 

 OF the Smithsonian Institution for the year 

 1868.— "Washington, D. C. From the Secretary. 

 Proceedings and Transactions of the 

 Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Sci- 

 ence, Vol. II, Part II. Halifax, N. S. 



