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may be enabled to resume our nets with the consciousness 

 that the rows of weevils now standing in our drawers in 

 dismal array unnamed, and with labels reversed, or ("await- 

 ing Walton's Catalogue") consigned to the repository re- 

 proachfully yet hopefully endorsed " Insecta non-determi- 

 nata" have at length been definitively arranged, and, 

 wandering perchance with plying arm and watchful eye in 

 search of some rare Curculio through the shady copse, green 

 mead, or fragrant heath, chronicled, perhaps oft traversed, 

 by Britain's Schonherr, his name and the debt we owe him 

 shall not be forgotten even in the collector's ruling passion — 

 amor hdbendi. 



The " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," of 

 which the thirty-fourth volume is within a number of com- 

 pletion, was the next object of research ; the entomological 

 papers, I allude to those on Coleoptera, contained in this 

 important periodical, although numerically comparatively 

 insignificant, are of the highest order, and, with one excep- 

 tion, the selection of the species appertaining to my list 

 occasioned me no difficulty. 



Mr. Andrew Murray's " Catalogue of Scottish Coleoptera," 

 William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1853, 

 next demanded ray attention, and to this meritorious little 

 book our list, as will be seen, is greatly indebted. 



The " Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Northumberland and 

 Durham," by Messrs. Hardy and Bold, published in the 

 " Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club," and 

 also in a separate form, has contributed no insignificant num- 

 ber of new species, particularly among the Brachelytra; and, 

 although assuming the modest title of Catalogue, is replete 

 with valuable observations, and the descriptions of new species 

 leave nothing to be desired. 



" The Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club " 

 has likewise contributed to my undertaking. 



