JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 
AUGUST, 1924 
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The West Coast entomologists are to be congratulated upon the first 
issue of “The Pan-Pacific Entomologist” just at hand. It is published 
quarterly by the Pacific Coast Entomological Society in cooperation 
with the California Academy of Sciences. It is primarily systematic and 
biological and rightly gives most attention to West Coast insects. 
There is a large field for this new journal and a corresponding opportunity 
for service. All economic entomologists are interested in this venture, 
not only on general principles but on account of the fact that all ento¬ 
mology is economic in its ultimate analysis. Any effort which assists 
in clearing up the unkown in relation to insect life, and there is still 
much of this, aids the more obvious economic investigations. There¬ 
fore, we welcome a new ally. 
Factors affecting the distribution of insects have a very direct eco¬ 
nomic bearing. It is well known that the cotton moth and the large 
Erebus odora are found occasionally many miles north of their normal 
habitat—the swarms of fresh individuals of the former being most 
noteworthy. Some years ago the late Dr. J. B. Smith demonstrated the 
occurrence of salt marsh mosquitoes 40 miles from any known breeding 
places. The recovery of small gipsy moth larvae after drifting across 
Cape Cod Bay, some 20 miles, is another well known case. The wide¬ 
spread occurrence of insects with limited powers of flight, this latter 
being predicated upon frail bodies, such as those of gall midges and 
aphids, suggests that the lower air currents may play an important part 
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