THE 



VOL, 1, NEW SERIES, 



NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1880. 



No, 1, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



823 Pearl St., New York. 

 TERMS Two dollars per annum, in advance. 



EDITORS : 



CHAS. V. RILEY, Editor Washington, D. C. 



A. S. FULLER, Assistant Editor, Ridgewood, N. J. 



TO OLD AND NEW SUBSCRIBERS, GREETING! 



It is now just nine years ago that we 

 were penning the announcement that the 

 " American Entomologist and Botanist " 

 would be suspended for one year, and ex- 

 pressing our firm intention to commence 

 issuing Vol. III. after the year's intermis- 

 sion. The temporary leave we then took 

 of our readers has been extended far be- 

 yond the time anticipated. Business 

 changes and embarrassment in the firm 

 then publishing the magazine, the call of 

 Dr. Vasey, the botanical editor, to Wash- 

 ington, to take the position of botanist to 

 the Department of Agriculture ; multipli- 

 cation of our own duties ; business depres- 

 sion — all conspired to protract the reissuing 

 of the monthly. 



It is with pleasure, heightened by the 

 long delay, that we again address many of 

 the former subscribers. We greet you as 

 old friends, with the sincere hope and be- 

 lief that the greeting will be mutual, and 

 that you will assist in introducing us to 

 many new readers. 



The " American Entomologist " was 

 originally begun by the late Benj. D. 

 Walsh and ourselves, as a magazine devoted 

 to practical and popular entomology. It is 



renewed as such, and we shall endeavor to 

 adopt such new features as will make it a 

 welcome visitor, not only to the cultivator 

 of the soil, in any and every part of this 

 broad land, who is endeavoring to sucess- 

 fully cope with the insects that injuriously 

 affect his productions ; but to every one in 

 any way interested in the study of insects, 

 from the amateur collector to the specialist. 

 We shall endeavor to do this by publishing 

 ist, articles of permanent value on the 

 habits and general natural history of species 

 and especially of those that are beneficial 

 or injurious to the agriculturist ; 2nd, 

 similar articles on physiology and anatomy ; 

 3d, extracts and translations from con- 

 temporary entomological periodicals, both 

 at home and abroad ; 4th, general notes ; 

 5th, extracts from correspondence ; 6th, 

 accounts of the doings of clubs and 

 societies ; 7th, notices and reviews of 

 publications ; 8th, answers to corre- 

 spondents ; 9th, local lists and purely 

 descriptive matter. 



Whenever lists or descriptions of species, 

 unaccompanied by biological or other 

 matter, and therefore uninteresting to the 

 general reader, shall exceed in amount one 

 printed page, the excess will be printed as 

 additional to the ordinary reading matter, 

 and charged to the author at first cost of 

 printing, presswork and paper. In this 

 way we offer, without infringing on the 

 space to be devoted to topics of more 

 general interest, a monthly Descriptive 

 Department of unlimited extent to those 

 authors who desire to insure the speedy 

 publication of long descriptive papers. 

 For the cost of thus publishing descriptive 

 matter and for other business details we 

 refer to the publisher's announcement, 



