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contributor to our pages, for the most part on the subject of exotic 

 Coleoptera ; and in our own fauna in this Order, E. C. Rye began a 

 series of equally valuable notes with the first part of his revision of our 

 species of Stemis. As announced in the preface to the first volume, 

 the Magazine, while by no means neglecting Exotic Entomology, was 

 to be largely devoted to that of the British Islands, and papers and 

 records of our Coleoptera have throughout held, and continue to occupy, 

 a prominent place in its pages. As regards the other " favourite " 

 Order, the Lepidoptera, we have had of recent years to regret a marked 

 falling-off in the number of contributions, though occasional valuable 

 notes continue to appear, and we trust that in the future these will be 

 more numerous. The careful and detailed descriptions of the larvae of 

 many of our Lepidoptera, by W. Buckler and the Rev. J. Hellins, are 

 an important feature of our earlier volumes. In addition to many con- 

 tributions by our successive Editors, the work of a large number of 

 our best known Entomologists had found a place in our pages, as well 

 as that of several distinguished foreign workers, among whom may be 

 named Achille Ghienee, C. Bergroth, O. M. Reuter, Baron von Osten- 

 Sacken, and others. 



Of the contributors to our first volume, eight well-known Ento- 

 mologists, some of them in the front rank of our workers, are happily 

 still with us : — A. Gf . Butler, F. Enock, C. Fenn, Ceo. Lewis, 

 Gr. B. Longstaff, G-. F. Mathew, D. Sharp, and C. O. Waterhouse. 

 The veteran Dr. Sharp, from whose pen an important paper appears 

 in the present issue, indeed narrowly missed being a contributor to our 



y first number, as his note published on p. 48 was announced on its 



ipper as having been received. 



The Rev. T. Blackburn resigned his position on the staff of our 

 Magazine in May, 1866, on his leaving England, and Dr. H. Guard 

 Knaggs, who resigned in 1874, was succeeded by Mr. J. W. Douglas. 

 Messrs. C. Gr. Barrett and Edward Saunders joined our staff in June, 

 1880, and the vacancy caused by the premature and tragic death of 

 our esteemed first editor for Coleoptera, Mr. E. C. Rye, was filled after 

 an interval of a year by the Rev. W. W. Fowler ; this department 

 being strengthened by the accession of Mr. Gr. C. Champion in January, 

 1891. The Magazine sustained a very heavy loss in December, 1892, 

 in the death of its practical founder Mr. H. T. Stainton, whose place 

 on the staff was filled by Lord Walsingham until December, 1912 ; 

 Mr. R. McLachlan, who from the first had taken a prominent part in 

 its management, became Editor-in-Chief until his lamented decease in 



