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our * Transactions,' whicli languish for want of the very support; here 

 so freely bestowed. I might quote many letters that I have received 

 upon this subject to show that this is not my own individual opinion; 

 I content myself with an extract from one which conveys the meaning 

 of all the others. My correspondent writes : — " Cannot you get more 

 papers for the Society ? Can you tell me why the ' Journal of Ento- 

 mology ' was started, and by whom ? I see a second No. is an- 

 nounced ; I had hoped the first would have been the last. It is too 

 bad that the writers should starve the Society's * Transactions,' 

 unless they have some very cogent reasons." The only advantage 

 that I can conceive the authors have is that the papers are published 

 somewhat sooner than they would be in our ' Transactions,' but this 

 could be remedied if we had the matter to publish, for want of matter 

 has sometimes delayed our Parts ; and even on the score of expense 

 to the Society, if that were urged as an objection, if the authors con- 

 tributed something to the Society to insure the rapid publication of 

 their papers, the cost to them, or to the promoters of the ' Journal,' 

 as the case may be, would be much less than that of bringing out a 

 separate pubhcation. Indeed, I think that with the exceedingly 

 numerous entomological publications at present in existence, he who 

 adds another one, without any feature to distinguish it from others, 

 needlessly increases labour and expense to his entomological 

 bretlu-en. Therefore I think the publication of the ' Journal ' a mis- 

 take ; and as the promoters are all members of, and I believe weU- 

 wishers to this Society, and, besides, friends of my own, I make 

 these remarks, embodying a very general opinion, with the best 

 feeling, and in the hope that they will be received as they are 

 meant, 



* A List of the British Euplexoptera, Orthoptera, Thysanoptera 

 and Hemiptera,' by Francis Walker. For the publication of this 

 List we are indebted to the kindness of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. ; 

 and I sincerely hope it may have the effect intended by that gentle- 

 man, of directing the attention of British entomologists to the now 

 neglected orders of insects whicli it includes. 



The Bay Society has just issued to its Subscribers of last year : — 

 'A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland,' Part 1, 

 by John Blackwall, Esq., F.L.S. (twelve plates, folio). This elabo- 

 rate work gives ample descriptions and coloured figures of 110 spe- 

 cies of spiders, and descriptions only of several more ; and while it 



