PREFACE. 



Had any one told us four years ago that in the year 1858 

 we should have before us a printed list of the names and 

 addresses of 967 British Entomologists, we should certainly 

 have doubted the sanity of our informant. Yet, as our 

 readers will perceive, such a list now exists, and not only so, 

 but that list by no means exhausts the Entomologists resident 

 amongst us. Since it was printed the names of fifteen other 

 Entomologists have reached us — some, no doubt, beginners, 

 but others have been collecting for some time. 



One gentleman, of whose existence we were previously 

 unaware, wrote to make some entomological inquiry, and 

 concluded his letter with these words, " As I cannot move 

 out of my room as yet, I amuse myself of an evening by 

 placing my table-lamp in the window, and I have taken 

 some very good things. So, you see, at seventy-four years 

 of age, I am as great an enthusiast as a boy." Hence it is 

 quite possible that many Entomologists who have turned 

 three-score are scattered throughout the country, and their 

 names are not entered in our list. 



The Geographical List will no doubt be found highly 

 serviceable ; but a considerable drawback is, that these two 

 lists take up so much space (54 pages) that a serious inroad 



