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using it as a medium for the publication of entomological articles relating not
only to agriculture but also to forestry and medicine. The Journal should be
specially welcome to workers on Veterinary Entomology in India, as affording
them an opportunity, in the early stages of the development of this branch,
for consolidating their contributions before they have been scattered away in a
diversity of periodicals, such as has been in the past the fate of General Ento-
mology in this country. Veterinary Entomology has made what may be re-
garded as almost its debut in the arena of science and the problems that
immediately confront it are therefore both varied and numerous. Some of the
problems that are at present being actually worked out and might appro-
priately find a place in a journal of this kind relate to the morphology and
bionomics of insects and ticks of veterinary importance, the ecology of the
insect pests of cattle and to the systematic side of Veterinary Entomology ;
whilst contributions on disease transmission by arthropods should obviously
be reserved for publication in veterinary journals.
The original articles in the present number of the Journal cover a wide
range of subjects, such as the ecology of the spotted bollworms of cotton ;
the migrations and transformation of locusts ; the opening of the well-known
Lloyd Barrage as a possible factor in causing a change in the status of the
mango-hopper in Sind ; tropic responses in a species of Dermestid beete '
and the insect fauna of a hot spring ; whilst Systematic Entomology is re-
presented by two articles, one on hymenopterous parasites and the other on the
variants of the fruit-fly, Dacus ferrugineus.
A notable feature of the Journal—a feature which is reminiscent of one
in the well-known periodical Entomologist—is the inclusion of a series of short
notes on a large variety of subjects of entomological interest, such as the pre-
ference shown by Euzophera for apples infested by the codling moth ; the ant
fauna of Delhi; new records of insects or of their plant hosts ; colour variation
in a species of beetle ; a new device for feeding small insects on leaf surface ;
the probable mechanism of the so-called autophotographs of butterflies ;
and the relationship of the fluctuation of locust infestations with sunspot
cycles. The penultimate section of the Journal consists of abstracts of a
selection of articles of tropical interest, including one on the selection of hosts
by insect parasites.
Finally, the ' News and Announcements ' section—similar to one in the
Journal of Economic Entomology—will doubtless add to the interest of the
Journal and will serve to keep alive in the minds of its entomological readers
an espirit de corps in the pursuit of what they have chosen to make the vocation
of their life.
In the selection of material for publication in the Journal, the Editorial
Board would thus appear to have laid down a policy that makes for the success
of an enterprise of this kind and have at the same time shown commendable
foresight in undertaking to publish the Journal only twice a year, thereby
ensuring it against the fate—in the form of a premature death or progressive
attenuation—that not infrequently befalls the more ambitious journals of
this class. [S. K. S.]