ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Philadelphia, Pa., October, 19 19. 



The Resting Place of Collections. 



If possible, decide during your life time what you wish 

 done with your collection after your death, and make a will. 

 If you don't do this the collection will probably go to the very 

 place you would least like to have it ; or it may go to the devil 

 via the Anthrenus route. 



Do not give it or will it on condition that it be kept intact, 

 as that is a most foolish form of egomania and will defeat 

 your wishes and make the collection a source of trouble wher- 

 ever it is, and it will be practically neglected. 



You must trust some one and why not trust the entomolo- 

 gists that will have charge of it? A collection that is not 

 growing and added to, unless it contains types, is surely a 

 dead one. Imagine a museum with numerous collections to 

 be kept intact and separate, and examining all of them, one 

 after the other, for purposes of study. Memorials should 

 take some other form : perhaps special pin labels and a good 

 picture of the donor, displayed in the museum, suitably in- 

 scribed. There is a tendency in these days to keep holotypes 

 separate and this would also make the intact collection of less 

 use for study. There are many excellent reasons for our 

 advice and a number of cases in illustration could be cited, 

 but space forbids. — H. S. 



Notes and News. 



entomological gleanings from all quarters 



of the globe. 



The Occurrence of Eurema mexicana Boisd. in 

 Illinois. (Lepid.). 



The capture of Burema mexicana Boisd. in Illinois is so uncommon 

 an occurrence that a few notes on the subject are perhaps not out of 

 place. 



Dr. Henry Skinner, in his Synonymic Catalogue of the North Amer- 

 ican Rhopalocera, listed this species as occurring in Mexico, the ex- 

 treme southwestern states and occasionally in Nebraska, Iowa and 



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