Clje Canabian ^ntomolDgist. 



•VOL. VI. LONDON, ONT., JANUARY, 1S74. No. i 



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In accordance with a time honoured custom, we heartily tender to 

 ^11 our readers in this, the opening number of a new vokmie, the 

 ■compHments of the season — a happy and a prosperous new year. It is 

 meet at these annually recurring points in the history of our journal that 

 we should briefly review the past, believing as we do that a recalling to 

 mind the advances we have made and the encouraging success which has 

 attended our efforts thus far will stimulate us to renewed exertion and 

 make us hopeful and trustful for the future. Five years ago the Canadian 

 Entomologist made its first appearance as a small eight paged magazine. 

 Our members were scarcely sanguine enough to hope for a regular monthly 

 issue even of this size, so in the opening number its appearance was 

 promised occasionally, as material should accumulate ; but our success 

 has been beyond our expectations, the issue of our journal has been 

 tolerably regular up to the present time : we have gradually increased its 

 size from eight to twenty pages ; have risen from common white paper to 

 finely finished toned paper, have embellished our pages with many 

 beautiful wood-cuts, and have presented to our readers from time to time 

 Entomological matter in such variet}' as we trust will have met the views 

 and wishes of all those who have favored us with their patronage. The 

 work which our late esteemed Editor has so successfully carried on we 

 shall, with his assistance and that of our other coadjutors, endeavour to 

 continue. 



To those who have aided us by their \aluable contributions to our 

 pages we are especially grateful, and we sincerely hope for a continuance 

 of these esteemed favors. Pressed as we are with a burden of other 

 work, we trust our friends will continue to forward their papers without 

 waiting for personal solicitation. ^^'e propose to continue the monthly 

 articles on our common insects, and also to furnish such gleanings in our 



