Vol. VII, No. 5.] 
INSECT LIFE. 
[Issued July. 1895. 
SPECIAL NOTES. 
This is the Last Number of insect Life — For administrative reasons it 
has been decided to close the publication of Insect Life with this 
number, which completes volume VII. That the publication lias been 
of value to its many classes of readeis, including working naturalists 
and teachers, andespeciall y farmers and fruit-growers, we can not doubt, 
for many appreciative expressions have reached this ofBce. "Nature," 
for instance, probably the highest scientific authority printed in the 
English language, has recently (No. 1325, March 21, 1895) been good 
enough to refer to Insect Life as " the premier of entomological bul- 
letins,*' and refers to the fact that the results achieved by American 
workers should lead the English Cxovernment to a more generous recog- 
nition of work in economic entomology. Furthermore, it has been of 
great value to the Department, giving an opportunity for the speedy 
publication of results of immediate importance, and of short notes 
which, while of interest, would perhaps not have been published in any v - 
other form; but far more from the fa^t that it has greatly increased the 
number of correspondents of the JPr vision of Entomology and has in- 
terested a large corps of accurate observers, not only in the work of the 
division, but in the science of entomology in general. 
For the immediate future, at least, the place of Insect Life will be 
filled by the publication of two series of bulletins from the Division of 
Entomology. A new series of general bulletins will be begun, the old 
series concluding with No. 33. published March 4, 1895. These bulle- 
tins will comprise short reports on special observations, and the miscel- 
laneous results of the work of the division in practical and economic 
lines and in directions of general interest, thus including in the main 
many of the classes of articles which have been published in Insect 
Life. The second series of bulletins, published at rarer intervals, will 
contain the results of the purely scientific work of the members of the 
office force, and will consist largely of longer or shorter monographic 
papers on groups of North American insects. The bulletins ot the 
second series will be distributed only to libraries and to working ento- 
mologists, and will be published, therefore, in small editions. Those of 
the first series, however, will be seut to all of the present readers of 
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