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750 octavo pages of letter-press and fifteen plates, of which eleven have been 
coloured. The Council has been enabled to publish this unusual number of 
entomological memoirs mainly through the liberality of Mr. Dunning. The scheme 
for the separate publication of the ‘ Phytophaga Malayana’ has been abandoned ; 
and the plan of devoting an entire volume to a special work, of which the long-— 
continued incompleteness of several volumes is a necessary consequence, has not 
met with general approval. The ‘ Longicornia Malayana’ (vol. iii.) will be finished — 
as soon as circumstances will permit; the Secretary has now in hand snfficient © 
material to complete volumes iv. and v.; and the Third Series of our ‘ Transactions’ © 
will accordingly be closed. In future the series will be abolished, and the ‘Trans- — 
actions’ of each year, beginning with 1868, will form a distinct volume, complete 
in itself, and distinguished simply by the year of its publicalion. 
The usual classified summary of income and expenditure shows the following 
results ; — 
REceErrrTs. PayMENTs. 
£ £ if 
Contributions of Members -. 196 Publications = - - - 322] 
Sale of publications - - 77 Library - - - - - 5 
Interest on Consols - - 3 Prize Essay - - - - 5 
Extraordinary items - - 6 Rent and Office Expenses - 83 
Donations - - - - 122 
£404 £415 
Upon these figures the Council has to remark—(1), that, as compared with 
1866, the receipts from Members and from the sale of publications both exhibit 
a decrease; (2), that notwithstanding the payment of five quarters’ rent of the 
Society's apartments in Bedford Row, there is a diminution of £17 in the charge 
for general management, caused by the liberality of the Linnean Society in giving 
us the use of their Meeting-room rent free; (8), that even the large sum of 
£322 does not represent the total cost of production of the ‘Transactions,’ since 
the Society has to thank Messrs. Saunders, Smith and Stainton for the engraving 
of two-thirds of the plates; and (4), that the excess of expenditure over income 
has been defrayed out of the cash balance brought forward from 1866, leaving 
a cash balance in hand of £1 10s, 4d. 
Arrangements have been made for the compilation of a synonymic ‘ List 
of the Insects of the British Isles’ In the preparation of this List, it is desired 
to conform to recognized rules of nomenclature, but that the classification shall 
accord with modern views. The primary object is—not to give prominence to 
special or peculiar theories, either of arrangement or nomenclature, but to show 
what insects are known to inhabit our country, and by what names they are to 
be designated. Numerous citations of authors would serve only to encumber 
the Catalogue, without any commensurate advantage: it is hoped that, by a 
judicious selection, the List may serve to refer the student not only to the author 
who is responsible for the name of the insect, but also to a good description or 
figure of each species, and to so much as is known of its life-history and habits. 
