PRIZE ESSAYS. 
As an inducement to the study of Economic Entomology, and 
with a view to increase the practical utility of the Entomological 
Society, the Council offers Two Prizes of the value of Five 
Guineas each to be awarded to the authors of Essays or 
Memoirs, of sufficient merit and drawn up from personal obser- 
vation, on the anatomy, economy, or habits of any insect or group 
of insects which is in any way especially serviceable or obnoxious 
to mankind. The Essays should be illustrated by figures of the 
insects in their different states, and (if the species be noxious) 
must show the results of actual experiments made for the pre- 
vention of their attacks or the destruction of the insects them- 
selves. 
On former occasions the Council has selected a definite subject, 
as e. g., the Coccus of the Pine Apple, the larva of Agrotis Segetum 
(the large caterpillar of the turnip), &c. The consequence was, 
that competition was diminished or not called into play. On the 
present occasion, therefore, the selection is left to the candidates 
themselves, provided only that the subject be one fairly belonging 
to the Economic branch of Entomology. 
The Essays must be sent to the Secretary at No. 12, Bedford 
Row, with fictitious signatures or mottoes, on or before the 31st 
December, 1865, when they will be referred to a Committee to 
decide upon their merits ; each must be accompanied by a sealed 
letter indorsed with the fictitious signature or motto adopted 
by its author, and inclosing the name and address of the writer, 
The Prize Essays shall be the property of, and will be pub- 
lished by, the Society. 
