BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY. 



Under the immediate sanction of the PRESIDENT and COUNCIL of the 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 01 LONDON will be published a Series of Works 

 on British Entomology, to be entitled 



INSECTA BRITANNICA. 



The object of this series of publications is to supply the Entomologist, 

 and the Scientific Public in general, in the first place, with works descriptive 

 of those orders and families of the Insects of the United Kingdom, which 

 have not hitherto been fully treated of by British authors, and afterwards, to 

 revise what has already been published, introducing all the new discoveries, 

 and making such alterations in the nomenclature as the present state of 

 Entomological Science requires, so that ultimately a complete and uniform 

 Series of Works on British Entomology may be produced. 



In order to render these works as popular and instructive as possible, 

 general information on the habits and economy of the species will be intro- 

 duced as far as practicable. 



The necessity of such a series of Entomological publications, to complete 

 the great chain of works on the Natural Productions of this country, will 

 be evident to all interested in the history of our native Fauna, and should 

 secure their support. 



Mode of Publication. 



The only method of bringing this object to a successful issue is to publish 

 by Subscription ; and it is therefore intended to commence with the following 

 limited series of five volumes : 



Vol. I. DIPTERA ; by F. WALKER, Esq., F.L.S. 



Vol. II. HEMIPTERA and HOMOPTERA ; by W. S. DALLAS, Esq., F.L.S. 



Vol. III. MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA; by H. T. STAINTON, Esq., Sec. Ent. Soc. 



Vol IV 



j. Completion of the DIPTKRA; by F. WALKER, Esq., F.L.S. 



One volume will be published annually, complete in itself, containing from 

 three hundred to three hundred and twenty octavo pages of letter-press, with 

 eight to ten plates, illustrative of the Genera, and will be delivered free at 

 any place in London where the subscribers may direct. 



The Subscription for the first five volumes will be 4 10$., being at the 

 rate of 18s. per volume, to be paid annually on its delivery. 



The price of each volume to the public will be 25*. 



The Series will be under the superintendence of a Committee consisting of 

 THE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 THE SECRETARIES or THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 WILLEAM SPENCE, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 

 J. F. STEPHENS, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 

 W. W. SAUNDERS, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



London : Reeve and Benham, 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 



