IV PREFACE. 



Seteroptera ; we hope all those who are working at this 

 tribe of insects will kindly announce in the pages of the 

 " Intelligencer" any novelties they may meet with. 



Mr. Janson has kindly contributed his usual supply of 

 Coleopterological pabulum. Each year we fondly hope that 

 the time is coming for a New Manual of British Beetles; 

 our lists of novelties afford valuable materials towards that 

 great desideratum, but still it lingers, and we are not yet able 

 even to announce it as in the press. 



We have this year given an Index to the new British 

 Lepidoptera noticed in former volumes of the Annual, and 

 it would, no doubt, be very serviceable had we a similar 

 Index to the new Coleoptera. 



Mr. Harpur Crewe's notes on the larvaB of the genus Eu- 

 pithecice will be found very useful to all those who are 

 working at that puzzling group of moths. It is only by 

 rearing long series of these insects from the egg that the 

 range of variation of the larvae and of the perfect insects can 

 be satisfactorily established. 



H. T. STAINTON. 



MOUNTSFIELD, LeWISHAM, 



December 10 th, 1860. 



