PEE FACE. 



As tliis Volume is tlie twentieth of its series, it seems 

 a fitting opportunity to bring that series to a close. 

 Sooner or later there must have been an end to this 

 Annual, — so why not now ? 



'* The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer" extended 

 to ten Volumes : and I had scarcely thought when that 

 tei-minated in 1861, the Annual would have survived it 

 thirteen years. 



So with these words, I bid the readers of the Annual 

 — Farewell ! 



H. T. STAIXTOX. 



MOUXTSFIELD, LEWISHAM. S.E. 

 January '^OtJi, 1874. 



