

PREFACE. 



In wishing our readers and contributors the compliments of the 

 season we would also like to thank those who have helped with the 

 varied matter which our pages contain. The Magazine continues to 

 hold its own and the contributors are to be heartily thanked for their 

 kindly aid in making the contents both instructive and interesting. 



It will be noted that the Index, like that of last year, is 

 somewhat different in its plan to those of previous years. We owe 

 this to our colleague Mr. J. R. le. B. Tomlin, who most kindly took 

 this matter in hand and considerably simplified the somewhat 

 cumbrous and redundant arrangement of the previous indexes. 



We would still like to urge our readers from little-known localities 

 to give us their experiences ; there are many parts of the British Isles 

 from which few or no records of the insect fauna exist. 



Hy. J. TUBNKR. 



