VOL. 1, 



ST. LOUIS, MO., AUGUST, 1869. 



NO. 12. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 

 R.. DP. STX73DX,E-5r &; CO., 



104 OLIVE STREET, ST. LOUIS. 



.Two floUars per annum in advance. 



EDITORS : 



HEX.I. D. WAI.SH Rock Island, 111. 



CIIAS. V. itlLEY, 221 N. Jlaiu Street St Louis, Mo. 



THE CLOSE OP THE FIRST VOLUME, 



A year has nearly passed away .since our little 

 enterprise. The American Entomologist, was 

 launched. We have been highly g-ratified at the 

 manner in which it has been received; and, 

 judging- from the many congratulatory letters 

 that have come to hand, it has not failed to give 

 some satisfaction. Indeed, very many of our 

 subscribers have e.\i)ressed astonishment that 

 such a paper can be published at the low price 

 of $1.00 a year, and they wonder how we make 

 it pay. In truth, it has uot paid, though we 

 were determined to carry it through to the end 

 of the volume according to promise. From the 

 number of names now ou our subscription 

 books, and from the general interest manifested 

 in the undertaking, we feel confident that such a 

 publication as ours is needed, and shall con- 

 tinue it with the following changes : 



The second volume, like the first, will consist 

 of twelve numbers, but instead of issuing these 

 numbers at regular monthly intervals, they will 

 be issued at intervals of about five weeks, in 

 order that the volume may end witli the year 

 1870. 



Instead of 2-t pages, as formerly, each number 

 will consist of 32 pages. 



The quality of the paper and of the ink will 

 be superior to that heretofore used, by which 

 means we hope to give still greater clearness to 

 our illustrations. 



Each number will be protected by a cover so 

 as not to soil while being mailed. 



We shall make the Answers to Correspond- 

 ents a more important feature of tlie paper, and 

 shall space the matter so that it can be read 



with less difficulty. In short, we shall approach, 

 as near as possible, the appearance of the pres- 

 ent issue, which in typography and general 

 cast may be considered a sample of what the 

 future numbers are intended to be. 



The price will be $2.00 per volume in ad- 

 vance, and wc shall continue to furnish one 

 copy free to any one sending us a club of five 

 names. 



If the above changes please our readers, and 

 we confidently believe they will, we hope each 

 and every one of them will obtain another name 

 and send it along with the renewal of their 

 own. In this way the present subscription 

 might easily be doubled, and the Entomologist 

 be thereby thoroughly established. The first 

 number of Volume II will be sent to no one 

 who does not order it, so send in your subscrip- 

 tions early ! 



We solicit communications on pertinent sub- 

 jects both from our practical and scientific 

 readers, and whenever such communications 

 are of sufiicieiit interest, we shall gladly pub- 

 lish them, but at the same time we shall make 

 free use of the editor's prerogative of rejecting, 

 whenever we deem it necessary. Heretofore 

 we have paid nothing for what few communi- 

 cations have been published in onr columns, 

 but believing that time is as valuable to others 

 as to ourselves, we shall hereafter pay a liberal 

 price per page, for all articles that are accepted. 



In conclusion, wc tender our most sincere 

 thanks to our numerous friends of the Agricul- 

 tural and Horticultural Press, for their many 

 kindly notices, and to those of our subscrihers 

 who have interested themselves in our behalf. 

 Hoping to still merit their favors, with best 

 wishes to all, we conclude the First Volume of 

 Tin; American Entomologist. 



Insect Barometers. — An exchange says thai, 

 "if the ants have cleared tlieir holes nicely, and 

 have piled the dirt up high, it seldom fails to in- 

 dicate a clear day, though it may be cloudy un- 

 til 11 o'clock iu the forenoon. Spider webs will 

 be very numerous about the tops of the grass 

 and grain some cloudy mornings; and fifty 

 years' observation have shown the writer that 

 these little weather guessers seldom fail in their 

 prediction of a fair day." 



