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May, 1904 ; during his long illness the Magazine was conducted by Mr. E . 

 Saunders, and his vacancy was occupied by Commander J. J. Walker, 

 R.N. The memories of C. G-. Barrett (died December, 1904), and of 

 Edward Saunders (died February, 1910), are still fresh and honoured 

 with us ; and we enjoy the assistance of their successors Messrs. Gr. T. 

 Porritt (February, 1905), J. E. Collin (March, 1906), and R. W. 

 Lloyd (March, 1909) We owe the series of nine coloured plates in 

 illustration of British and Exotic Insects, which have been a feature 

 of our recent volumes, to the munificence of one of the present 

 Editors. 



It is with great pleasure that we are enabled to present the 

 readers of the current number of the " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine " with the portraits of the eight deceased Founders and 

 Editors. The originals of five of these portraits have been kindly 

 supplied by Mrs. E. Saunders, Messrs. C. Gr. Barrett, jun., W. L. Distant, 

 H. McLachlan, and C. O. Waterhouse. 



It is obviously impossible in this place to do more than allude to 

 the extensive scope of the work embodied in the pages of our fifty 

 volumes ; but the following statistics of the additions to the fauna of 

 our Islands will at any rate serve to show that the design of the 

 Magazine as a record of British Entomology, as indicated by our 

 original Editors in the preface to Vol. I, has been fully carried out. 



Additions to the British Insect Fauna recorded in the 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, June, 1864 — Mat, 1914. : — 



Coleoptera ... ... ... ... 601 species. 



Diptera ... ... ... ... ... 1121 



EuPLEXOPTERA ... ... ... ... 3 



Hemiptera ... ... ... ... 166 



b.omoptera ... ... ... ... 317 



Hymenoptera ... ... ... ... 446 



Lepidoptera ... ... ... ... 218 



Neuroptera (sensu Linneano) ... ... 79 



Orthoptera ... ... ... ... 3 



SlPHONAPTERA ... ... ... ... 11 



Thysanoptera ... ... ... ... 27 



Total ... ... 2992 species. 



And of 1369 species of Coleoptera described during this period as 

 new to Science, 132 were found for the first time in the British 



