

PREFACE. 



The first Volume of The Entomologist'' s Monthly Magazine 

 being concluded, its Editors take the opportunity of saying the 

 following few words on their reasons for bringing it forward. 



They felt that the Entomologists of this country had no 

 periodical, exclusively devoted to their science and procurable at a 

 moderate price, which could be used as a medium for publishing 

 discoveries or obsei'vations. 



With that feeling, and at the request of numerous friends, they 

 instituted this Magazine ; resolving at the outset that, although of 

 a sufBciently scientific character to contain descriptions of new 

 species, and memoirs of similarly high interest, — it should also act 

 as a chronicle wherein any observer could register note-worthy 

 captures, or observations on the transformations, habits, &c., of 

 insects ; such records being of great value as a source from which 

 writers of monographs or papers on geographical distribution, &c., 

 may draw much information. 



Feeling assured that the majority of those in Great Britain 

 who follow the study of Entomology cannot find time to attend to 

 the productions of other countries than their own, the Editors 

 determined that the proposed Magazine should especially be 

 devoted to recording observations upon, and additions to, our Insect 

 Fauna: still, they will always be glad to receive papers on European 

 and Exotic Entomology ; and congratulate themselves on having 

 been enabled to publish several such of considerable importance. 



