Ch Canadian Entomologist. 
VOL. V. LONDON, ONT., JANUARY, 1873. No. t 
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It has been our custom at the commencement of a new volume to 
offer our hearty greetings to our friends and correspondents, to all who 
read the CANADIAN ENToMOLOGIST,—to ail, indeed, who take a kindly 
interest in the success of our journal and the welfare of our Society. 
This year we do so most cordially, with not a little pardonable pride, 
when we remember that it is for the 7/72 time. Four years and a half 
have elapsed since we ventured to put forth our diminutive first number 
that consisted merely of eight pages; with our last December number we 
completed our fourth volume and eight-hundredth page of Entomological 
matter ! 
A complaint has once or twice reached us lately to the effect that our 
publication was gradually becoming too technical, and consequently of 
decreasing interest to a large number of our readers, who, from various 
causes, are unable to become deep students of the science, but who take 
great delight in learning all they can respecting the economy and classifi- 
cation of the insects of the country. We must confess that the complaint 
is not unfounded, and that we have almost unconsciously drifted some- 
what away from the design of the periodical. It has always been our 
intention and desire to meet the requirements, if possible, of two classes 
of readers—those, on the one hand, who are leaders in the pursuit of 
Entomology, and who, therefore wish to have presented to them in 
convenient form all discoveries of new species and other valuable 
scientific information that may from time to time be acquired by their . 
fellows,—and those, on the other hand, who collect and study insects to 
some extent, but are not yet far advanced in the pursuit; or who merely 
regard insects as destructive or beneficial and therefore wish to know 
something about them ; or, again, who take pleasure in learning all they 
can about these creatures without either collecting or specially studying 
them. To meet the particular requirements of all these various 
descriptions of readers would, of course, be a perfect impossibility in a 
periodical of such limited size as ours; at the same time we think that 
