

PKEFACE TO VOL. III. 



We have at the conclusion of Vol. III. to again thank our still 

 iincreasing circle of subscribers for their support. 



Our attempts to interest the ever-increasing body of collectors, 

 and at the same time to keep pace with scientific advance, appear to 

 be crowned with a large measure of success. Our Exchange List, of 

 which collectors so largely avail themselves, is now much larger than 

 those of all other British Entomological Magazines combined, whilst 

 the scientific papers by well-known contributors, speak for themselves. 



Headers will hear with pleasure that Dr. Chapman will write a 

 ■series of papers " On the Larva of Arclia caia," which will be illus- 

 itrated with two Chromo-Litho Plates. A series of articles on 

 comparatively new and little-known Lepidoptera, illustrated with 

 •Chromo-Litho figures, will also appear in Vol. IV. 



The Special Index to Vol. I. is out of print and cannot be 

 supplied, whilst of that to Vol. II. only a few cojiies are left. A 

 Special Index to Vol. III. (for which we have to thank Miss Kimber) 

 is published herewith. The delay in binding, caused by the rather 

 late production of the Index is to be regretted, but the labour entailed 

 is so great that it could not be done more quickly without serious 

 •errors and blunders creeping in. 



THE EDITOR. 



