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Heitzman: Albino male Eurema
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AN ALBINO MALE EUREMA LISA (PIERIDAE) COLLECTED
IN MISSOURI
On 16 September 1963 I had the unique experience of capturing an albino male Eurema lisa lisa Boisduval and Leconte. The specimen was taken fluttering by the side of an old railroad track near Atherton, Missouri. In this area Eurema lisa migrates north each season in June and produces two or three broods in our region. The numbers fluctuate greatly from year to year and this summer the species was quite common. I probably saw forty or more during the course of 1:he day. When I saw this white one flying by I took it to be an albino female. Pure white females are very rare in this area, and luckily so, for otherwise I would have passed this one up. Since I have never seen or heard of an albino male being taken before, I thought this record might prove interesting to other collectors. The specimen possesses the normal black borders with a white ground color on the upper side. Beneath, the ground color is white with the normal brown markings reduced and of a silvery gray tone.
Richard Heitzman, 3112 Harris Avenue., Independence, Mo., U. S. A
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EDITORIAL
As of this Volume, Dr. Charles L. Remington steps aside as editor of the Journal? after 17 years of work, not only as editor, but as general manager of the organization's affairs. With the change the Society enters a new era and must assume new respon-sibitities as a self-sufficient operation not dependent on the efforts of one man.
The Lepidopterists' Society was founded and a mimeographed newsletter initiated in 1947 by Remington and Harry K. Clench, while both were graduate students at Harvard. The Lepidopterists' News evolved to a lithographed publication the following year and to a formalized letterpress periodical in 1951. Ultimately the growing Society, under the guidance of Remington, expanded its publication, replacing The Lepidopterists' News with a litho printed News and the present quarterly Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society commencing with Volume 14 in 1958. During 18 years the Society has grown from an idea and the enthusiasm of a few persons to some 750 members and subscribing Libraries representing countries in all parts of the world.
The Society has from the beginning had as its aim the promotion of free interchange among lepidopterists of all countries, both professional and. amateur; a high proportion of the membership has been non-professionals, who have found a medium for communication with current trends in the study of Lepidoptera. Entomological journals in general experience the paradox of having editors who are trained as research biologists rather than as editors, except by experience. These editors are not paid and are seldom thanked for their efforts; the time donated must be subtracted from that available for the research for which they are trained. Moreover, contributors to these journals are for the most part trained as research biologists and not as writers, except by experience. Thus problems associated with editing and with author-editor relationships probably exist over and above those normally encountered by professional editors.
In the case of this journal, the high proportion of non-professional contributors often trained neither in research nor in writing, has undoubtedly compounded these problems. Accordingly, the criticism characteristically directed towards editors has been abundant in Dr. Remington's situation, I am sure, particularly from those with less publishing and no editing experience. However, we as members, critics and non-critics alike, should acknowledge the debt of gratitude which we owe him. The Society and its journal owe their existence to the efforts of Charles L. Remington.
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