For the first time since the Annual was started, it has been 

 overrun with matter, and we have been compelled to exclude 

 two chapters purposely written for the volume, and one other 

 which we would very willingly have inserted, but which will 

 now appear in the pages of the Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine. 



When the various papers were in preparation we feared we 

 should be rather short of matter, and asked some of our con- 

 tributors to make their papers longer than usual — the result 

 has been— as was exclaimed on a memorable occasion — 

 " Too much help." 



A word of thanks is also due to the numerous Entomolo- 

 gists and others who come forward so liberally in aid of the 

 subscription raised for Mr. William Winter, of Mulbarton, 

 near Norwich, for which he expresses himself most grateful. 



