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THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S ANNUAL 



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CONTENTS. 

 Advantages of the Study of Natural History. By the Editor 



Pleasures of Entomology. By the Editor 



List of British Entomologists. By the Editor 



Lepidoptera. By the Editor. 



New British Species in 1855 



Rare British Species captured in 1855 



Observations on British Tineina 



COLEOPTERA. 



Notes on British Geodephaga. By J. F. Dawson, LL.B. ... 



New British Species in 1855. By E. W. Janson 



Hymesoptera. By F. Smith. 



Notes on Aculeate Hymenoptera 



Instructions in Collecting the Aculeate Hymenoptera 



Results of a Residence at Fochabers. By John Scott 



Objects of a Collection of Insects. By John Lubbock 



Ghent to Glogau, and Stettin to Schaffhausen, in search of Entomologists 



By the Editor 



Important New Works on Entomology. By the Editor 



List of Entomological Books now on Sale in London. By the Editor .. 



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THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S ANNUAL for 1855, 



COMPRISING 



Notices of the New British nsects detected in 1854. 



LEPIDOPTERA. By the Editor. 

 HYMENOPTERA. By Frederick Smith. 

 COLEOPTERA. By E. W. Janson. 



Edited by H. T. STAINTON, 



Author of the "Entomologist's Companion." 



Second Edition, with considerable additions, including Instructions for Collecting, 

 Preserving and Arranging Insects ; and an Address to the young Entomologists 

 at Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Rugby, and at all other Schools. 



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