THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, 



In Crown Octavo, Price One Shilling, Number One of the 



CABINET OF BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY, 



Containing in a systematic arrangement, descriptions and carefully-coloured Illus- 

 trations from !N^aturo of all the most beautiful and interesting 



NATIVE INSECTS. 



BY C. WEIGHTMAN HARRISON. 



The above work is intended to aid in meeting the general demand for such 



Eublications as tend to promote in the Public mind a desire for scientific and 

 calthful pursuits, by presenting faithful representations and accurate descriptions 

 of the Insects of Great Britain, at a price that will not only bring it within the 

 pecuniary reach of all students and lovers of this most interesting Field of Nature, 

 but in such a popular form as will render the subjects easy of recognisance, a 

 point of importance to those whose time is mostly occupied by other and more 

 pressing engagements. 



A Number of the Work (until completed,) will appear regularly on the 1st. of 

 each Month, Price One Shilling, containing Three Plates; each Plate being illus- 

 trated with sevei'al figures of different species of Insects, coloured after nature, 

 and accompanied by accurate letter-press descriptions of the various peculiarities 

 of the genera and species represented. The whole ■nill be given in their systematic 

 arrangement, and no exertions will be spared to render the publication a Standard 

 Work on British Entomology, at a comparatively moderate Price, 



LONDON: 

 SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT, 



AND OF ALL ISOOKSELLEKS. 



TO ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



MR. FOXCROFT begs to return his sincere thanks to the Trustees of the 

 British Museum, the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergymen, and the Members of the 

 Entomological Societies, for the patronage he has received for a number of years; 

 and takes the liberty of informing them and others, that he intends collecting 

 Insects during the whole summer of the present year, (1854,) in the best locality- 

 known in Scotland, which is round the Black Forest, Rannoch, Perthshire; com- 

 mencing on the 6th. of April, and collecting for six months. 



Mr. F., to enable him to carry out this plan, wishes to raise a sufficient sum 

 by Subscriptions of One Guinea; each Subscriber to be entitled to one specimen 

 of every species collected during the season, which will be equally shared in 

 November, on his return, by himself Those Subscribers who are Coleoptera- 

 collectors, will have all the choice and rare Beetles divided amongst them in the 

 boxes; and those who are collectors of Lepidoptera, will have all the rare and 

 best specimens of Moths and Butterflies divided amongst them. The specimens 

 will be sent to the residences of the Subscribers; and the boxes containing them 

 are to be returned or paid for. 



Mr. F. hopes, by stopping in one locality in Scotland, to take such choice 

 Insects, or some new specimens that may be rai'e, to afford an excellent opportunity 

 to gentlemen to obtain A\hat may be wanting for their Cabinets; also for Pi'o- 

 prietors of Museums, and collectors of Britisli Insects. 



Persons wishing to become Subscribers, are requested to send their Subscriptions 

 by Post-offiee Order, or otherwise, by the end of March at the latest, to Mr. 

 James Foxckoft, 3, Union Yard, 191, Oxford Street, London. Post-office Orders 

 to be made payable at 210, Oxford Street. 



No person will be allowed to subscribe after the Gth. of April; and no one 

 will be considered a Subscriber vmtil he has paid liis Guinea. 



A variety of British Insects always on sale. All kinds of Insect-boxes ^wX 

 Cabinets for Insects. Nets and Breeding-cages of all kinds, and Cabinets for 

 Shells or Fossils made to order. 



Mr. F. has just bred a quantity of Boletophagus crenatus, which are 

 to be sold alive at Two Shilling's each. 



