vi Preface. 



After wailing a while to ascertain whether anyone would 

 venture on ihe vacated territory, and painfully aware of the 

 overcrowded state of the ' Zoologist,' leading to the postpone- 

 ment, and sometimes to the rejection, of papers of great 

 interest, which I should have been only too glad to publish, 

 I yielded to pressure, and determined to revive the ' Ento- 

 mologist.' 



Like Rip van Winkle, it awoke after a twenty years' slum- 

 ber, rubbed its eyes, and stepped forth amongst its living 

 namesakes with all the formality of its pristine appearance. 

 A few months have altered this, and the 'Entomologist' of 

 '65, although commenced with due solemnity, is as different 

 from the 'Entomologist' of '42 as good sound Saxon is from 

 the canine Latin in which 1 formerly had the misfortune to 

 rejoice. It became oVjvious that I had mistaken my calling. 

 I had no skill in that very peculiar language which, like the 

 Rev. P^dward Lving's, owes its })opularity to its obscurity. 



No sooner was the changed character of the ' Entomolo- 

 gist' apparent than entomologists came fluttering round me 

 like moths to sugar : tliey could not tail to be struck with 

 the change they had effected, and with the altered tone of a 

 periodical which, on awaking, threatened such rigid formality, 

 and which has in a few short months become the most free- 

 and-easy of all scientific journals. 



Whoever wants Volume I. will, I fear, want in vain ; it 

 reposes in peace on the shelves of the British Museum, the 

 Universities, and the learned societies, but has long since 

 disappeared from the bookseller's counter. The inconve- 

 nience of the late appearance of this second volume is, how- 

 ever, more than counterbalanced by the non-necessity for a 

 new name. Purchaseis need not be told that each volume is 

 complete in itself, and has no necessary connexion with the 

 other, 



EDWARD NEWMAN. 



