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done honour to itself Ly electing as one of its eight Honorary 

 Members. 



Descriptive Entomology. 



The technical descriptive literature of our Science continues to 

 increase with wonderful rapidity, threatening to equal in extent 

 that of all the other branches of Zoology combined. It cannot be 

 expected that in an Address of this kind a notice should be 

 attempted of more than the most important, or of the least known, 

 productions of entomological writers during the past year, and 

 hence I have purposely omitted to mention the many excellent 

 memoirs published in the various journals expressly devoted to 

 our Science, such as the 'Transactions' of the various Ento- 

 mological Societies, and those periodical works which are also 

 more especially confined to Entomology, such as the 'Ento- 

 mologist's Monthly Magazine,' the ' Entomologist,' the ' Petites 

 Nouvelles Entomologiques,' &c. 



In this department of the Science England well holds her own 

 in the race, and the various memoirs of Mr. H. W. Bates on the 

 Cicindelidse and Carabid£e, as well as those on the Longicorn 

 beetles of Nicaragua and Tropical America; those by Mr. F. 

 Bates on the Heteromerous Coleoptera ; Mr. Pascoe's articles on 

 the Curculionidffi of Australia; those of Mr. E. Saunders on the 

 Buprestidse ; the very remarkable memoir of Mr. S. S. Saunders 

 on the Strej^siptera ; the exquisitely coloured work on Exotic 

 Butterflies by Mr. Hewitson, and that of Mr. Butler on the same 

 beautiful tribes of insects, equally remarkable as a specimen of 

 colour-printing ; together with the most elaborate volume on the 

 Trichopterygidse published by the Eev. A. Matthews ; are all and 

 each as honourable to the Science of the country as they are to 

 their individual authors. 



We have to regret the non-appearance (which we trust may be 

 but temporary) of the ' Transactions of the American Ento- 

 mological Society,' which have, however, to a certain extent, been 

 replaced by those of the Entomological Society established in 

 Canada. And we may be allowed to express our sincere sympathy 

 with the French Entomological Society, whose 'Annales' have 

 again been partially destroj^ed by fire. 



It is with much pleasure we notice that the gradual change 

 which has taken place in the studies of the old Universities is 



