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gists. This number completes the first volume of the work, 

 and has a full accompaniment of titlepage, indexes, errata, 

 &c., together with " a list of the genera and species described 

 in the volume, for the purpose of labelling cabinets." All 

 these things seem given, that is, supernumerary to the quan- 

 tity of pages assigned to a number. 



With this number, which completes the first volume, price 

 185., there is also given an appeal " to all lovers of natural 

 history, all lovers of science, all who have the welfare of 

 entomology at heart," to afford, by the purchase of the first 

 volume, those who have originated this work and advanced, 

 voluntarily and for the sake of science alone, their responsi- 

 bility for its pecuniary support, " the means of continuing 

 their exertions, and prosecuting their undertaking." This 

 appeal we are happy to be able, on the best authority, to 

 state has not been made in vain. Owing to the liberal 

 support advanced by a few true naturalists, there is now no 

 prospect of the cessation of the Entomological Magazine, This 

 is gladdening news. 



No. VI., for January, 1834- (the first number of the second 

 volume), will and does (for we have been shown the land of 

 promise) contain the following communications ; — 1. Col- 

 loquia Entomologica ; by Corderius Secundus. Four lovers 

 of nature, of natural history, entomology, and the Entomo- 

 logical Magazine, are made to discourse much (12 pages), and 

 merrily, on men and things thereto appertaining. — 2. Mo- 

 nographia Chalcidum ; by F. Walker, Esq. F.L.S. In this 

 contiimation of the monograph (from vol. i. p. 446.), the fa- 

 milies Leucopsidae and Chalcididae are described. The first 

 includes but the genus Leucopsis ; the second, seven genera. 

 The characters of the genera and species are given in great de- 

 tail, and numerous synonymes are cited. Mr. Walker describes 

 several species from the neighbourhood of Paris, communicated 

 by M. F. de Laporte, and some derived from the Island of St. 

 Vincent, taken there by the late Rev. Lansdown Guilding 

 (p. 13. to 39.). — 3. Capture of Insects at Burghfield ; by the 

 Rev. C. S. Bird, M.A. F.E.S. This is a most interesting com- 

 munication. Mr. Bird supplies a list of those of the species of 

 insects, not quite common, which he has captured during ten 

 years' residence at Burghfield. He has been most successful in 

 the order Lepidoptera. " This success I owe to the use of a 

 lamp to attract moths. During the moonless nights of summer, 

 I sit with a sinumbra lamp, and perhaps one or two smaller 

 lamps, placed on a table, close to the window. The moths 

 speedily enter the room, if the weather be warm. I have had a 

 levee of more than a hundred between the hours of ten and 



