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Hrooklyn Entomological Society. 
VOL. V. BROOKLYN, MAY, 1882. | No. 1. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
With this number, we commence a new volume, and we hope a 
prosperous year for our Buttetrrmn. We trust in the future as we have 
tried in the past to make it a compendium of useful Entomological knowl- 
edge. 
For the coming year we promise for the Lepidopterists a completion 
of the ‘‘Synopsis of the Genera of the Noctuidz,” the continuation, in 
perhaps a somewhat different form of the synopses of Butterflies, and gen- 
eral articles of interest about the life history, so of the larvae and imagines 
of Lepidoptera—for the Coleopterists we shall complete our synopsis of 
the Carabid genera, besides this we shall have as usual, descriptions of lar- 
vee with an occasional plate, and articles of general interest on the habits 
etc. of beetles. If there should be space remaining after this, or if our 
subscription list should warrant us in enlarging our BuLLETIN we shall 
also give synopses of the species of some of the Noctuid genera and further 
synopses of Coleoptera. In any case we shall make our BuLietin the 
most useful and practical work for the collector and student of Entomo- 
logy that our space admits of. 
Believing that our collectors would rather know the species already 
described than to read descriptions of new species and varieties, often of 
doubtful validity and based on imperfect or rubbed single specimens, our 
Butyetin will aim in the former direction entirely and new descriptions 
will be few. 
We hope that our subscribers will favor us with prompt remittances 
for the amount of their subscriptions for Volume V, to be sent to the 
Brooxiyn Enromoxoeicar Society P.O. Box go, Station W. Brooklyn, 
N.Y., whence also all communications for the editors should be addressed. 
The Publication Committee of the 
BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
