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CMA ICR Ab Ms AL To fl Ms Meche 
OF THE 
HArooklyn Entomological Society. 
VOL. Vi. BROOKLYN, MAY, 1883. No! a 
SALUTATORY-~ 
Some ten years since there was formed in the City of Brooklyn, 
N Y., the ‘Brooklyn Entomological Society” composed of most of the 
Entomologists:of Brooklyn, New York, and its vicinity. 
In 1878 the society felt itself strong enough to begin the publica- 
tion of a “Bulletin” designed to perpetuate the observations of its mem- 
bers, to make known to others the results of their studies and also to 
gather together the descriptions and synopses of the genera and species 
of both Coleoptera and Lepidoptera for their own, and for the information 
of others. 
These aims have been kept constantly in view and the publication 
has been continued to date, and No. 1, of the 6th Volume is now 
presented to you. It has steadily increased in favor and has gradually 
enlarged its list of subscribers so that the society which is now probably 
the strongest in point of numbers of any of its kind in the United States 
has concluded to enlarge it to 12 pages per number, each number having 
heretofore consisted of eight pages, the subscription price to remain as 
heretofore one dollar per volume. 
They desire also to increase the value of the publication by giving 
more plates or illustrations than they have heretofore been able to give, 
and to this end they desire the support of every Entomologist and Natura- 
list in America — or elsewhere. 
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