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THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



L^In order that the .proper authorsliip be 

 given to such new species or genera as have 

 been descril)ed in tlie ENTOMor.o<;isT, it becomes 

 necessary, now tliat our associate is no more, 

 to explain in some part, tlie manner in which 

 the editorial department was conducted. It 

 was so agreed between Mr. Walsh and our- 

 selves, (hat in consideration of the lime we 

 devoted to the illustrations and to other general 

 editorial work, he should furnish on an average 

 two-thirds and we but ono-third of the reading 

 matter. In point of fact, the articles written 

 under the editorial "we,"' wore made as con- 

 Joint as possible, by a constant interchange of 

 individual facts and experience; and it was 

 decided that, whenever either one of us wished 

 to ])ublish any discovery peculiarly his own, or 

 to describe a new species in whicli the otlier 

 had no interest — lie should write under the 

 individual signature of "Senior Editor'' or 

 'Munior Editor." Thus, all descriptions oi 

 new species that have heretofore appeared in 

 these (columns under the editorial " we,"' should 

 l)e credited to "Walsli and Riley,'" and snch as 

 appear under the signature of either one or the 

 otlier separatelv, should be credited accord- 



i'lgiy. ^^^ 



D-^ We regret exceedingly that our book no- 

 tices, .and notices of exchanges, have been una- 

 voidably crowded out of this number. 



Missouri Entomological Rei-okt.— In an- 

 swer to several inquiries lately received, we 

 will state that the First Annual lieport of tlic 

 State Entomologist of Missouri can be had, 

 without plates, by sending fifty cents to C. W. 

 Murtfeldt, Secretary of llie State Board of Ag- 

 rccultnre, 012 North Fifth street, St. Louis; or 

 with uncolored plates and on superior paper by 

 sending $1.0it to the editor of this .Tournal. 



TO conuEsroxnFXTs. 



lit Ave know for i-mtain, 

 i-ts ill any partk-ul:u-listconifi 

 litv, and if not, from what 



Scorpion in Kansas — A'. Keheij. Oflami , Ji'aiitt. — 

 The animal yon send is a Soorpion— tlie Butliun caro- 

 ///kV(/i«« of Ucauvois — mcnticued by Dr. <i. Liiicecum, 

 on page iOo of tlio first volume of tlio Anuricnn Xntur- 

 a/ht, as a Texan species. You will find, by lelerring 

 to page .">!) o( our first volume [t"ol. 1, • . I), that it often 

 oi'curs in Sfissonri, but we wito not awaio before that 

 it occnrred in Kansas. 



Xiie Grain Brucltus of Europe Just Imported 



— .(. A. Fuller, Mdgewooif, A\ J.— The weevils whieh 

 were found in some pods presented to tlie Farmers' Oliib, 



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are evidently the common lOuropeaii Oiain liiiirlius 

 {Brucliua graiianus). You say tliat the ^entlrman who 

 presented the pods, gathered them from a tree in Swit- 

 zerland , It were very much to be wished that he knew 

 the kind of tree, and that he had had the good sense to 

 examine the pods before he brought them to this coun- 

 try. The seed-pod which you sent alongwith the beetles, 

 looked to us very much like that of an Everl.istlng pea, 

 but as it grew on a tree, it belongs in all probability to 

 some species of Laburnum. 'I'lie weevil was entirelv 

 new to us. and <loes not agree with any of the desi-ribed 

 N. A species, .ind Dr. Geo. XI. Horn, of Philadelphia 

 (wlio now has charge ot Dr. Lef'onte's large collection 

 of beetles), to whom we sent a specimen, pronounced 

 it new to the collections there Coiieluding, therefore, 

 that it \\:i- intiiMlueed from Euroi>e, we had no diffi- 

 cult) . ni uipiiiint:- it with European descriptions, in 



lecciuiiizinu it a- tlieir common Grain Brnohus. 



Now this weevil is a most unmitigated nuisance in 

 Kurope, where it is a very general feeder: and accord- 

 ing to the facts set forth in the article in oiu- present 

 number, entitled "Imported Insects ami Native .\mer- 

 icaii Insei'ts," it will prove even more injurious in tliis 

 country, if it once gets foot-hold. Vou will llierelore 

 see the nee<l of immediate action in the nuittei-. in onlei- 

 thai liy a little vigilance we may stamp it (.ut of our 

 luiiUt ^■|)U may rest .assured that we mi eiliatually put 

 an end to those which were ri'eei\eil lieie. that they 

 will never more see tlie light of day. W'l- advise von 



call t 



the Fs 



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on Native and Imported Insects already referri'd to, 

 and to the • • Heport of the t'ommittee on Entomology," ' 

 which elsewhere appears in this number. The Club 

 should insist on the total destruction ol every seed of 

 tliis kind that bus been ilistributed, for unless such 

 action is taken, that body may do more harm in the 

 introdnetion of one such insejt, than it can do good in 

 the next twenty years. When the Swedish traveller, 



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