ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL. NEWS solicit and will thank- 

 fully receive items of news likely to interest its readers from any source. 

 The author's name will be given in each case, for the information of 

 catalogruers and bibliographers.] 



TO CONTRIBUTORS. — All contributions will be considered and passed 

 upon at our earliest convenience, and, as far as may be, will be published 

 according to date of reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached 

 a circulation, both In numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- 

 sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four 

 weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special 

 or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without 

 change in form and without covers, will be given free, when they are 

 wanted; if more than twenty-flve copies are desired, this should be stated 

 on the MS. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. Proof will 

 be sent to authors for correction only when specially requested. — Ed. 



Philadelphia, Pa., November, 1912. 



At this season of the year when the collections of the past 

 summer are being labeled, when material is being received from 

 and sent to others, when papers based in part or in whole on 

 insects gathered not by the author are being prepared, forget 

 not the collector or the credit due him or her! See that his 

 or her name appears on the pin-label and in the "copy" for the 

 printer. As a well-known entomologist writes : "This is not 

 wholly a matter of personal credit or sentiment. A specimen is 

 worth more for scientific purposes if we know who obtained 

 it and can raise questions concerning it in the right quarter 

 when necessary. I am always indignant when I see a man 

 cite new material and give no credit to the collector; but col- 

 lectors are largely to blame if they do not put their names on 

 the labels." 



An interesting illustration of the value of citing the collec- 

 tor's name is afforded by Dr. Skinner's article on the redis- 

 covery of the longtime rare beetle, Plusiotis zvoodii Horn, 

 in the News for October, 1911, page 356. Horn's citation of 

 of Dr. H. C. Wood as collector enabled Dr. Skinner to write 

 to that veteran and ascertain the probable localities at which 

 the types of the species had been taken. 



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