ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 
PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1920. 
SOME NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE ENTOMOLOGIST 
1. Label Jegibly all specimens as to locality and date of 
capture and collector’s name; any other data that bear on 
the insect’s relations to its environment are also desirable. 
2. When about to send insects by mail or express, first 
read the editorial in the NEws for January, 1915, page 33. 
3. Check up identifications of material with the original 
descriptions as far as possible. 
4. When writing a paper for publication see that it is 
easily legible and leave a blank margin of half an inch or 
more on the left edge. 
5. Follow the Wistar Institute’s or Muttkowski’s (Annals 
Ent. Soc. America, iv, 194-217) suggestions for the prepar- 
ation of scientific papers. 
6. Add the names of the Order and the Family, to which 
the insects treated belong, to the title of your paper. 
7. Follow the International Rules of Zoological Nomen- 
clature in the forming of new generic and specific names. 
8. Specify the genotvpe of each new genus you propose. 
9. Specify the individual type or types (preferably a single 
type), the type locality and the museum or collection in 
which the type or types are located, whenever describing a 
new species. 
10. Label specimens which have served as types, or as 
originals of published figures or descriptions, with brief but 
sufficient references to the place of publication. 
11. When identifving a specimen, add your name, fol- 
lowed by the abbreviation “det.” and the year to the label 
bearing the generic and specific names. 
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