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Brooklyn Entomological Society. 
VOLE Vr: BROOKLYN, MAY, 1884. NOs’ i. 
To our Friends and Subscribers, Greeting. 
We present you herewith number one of the seventh volume of our 
Bulletin. In vol. VI we tried the experiment of enlarging our paper, 
and presenting a somewhat greater variety of matter. The promises nade 
in the Introductory we think were kept, so far as space allowed us to 
keep them. The support accorded to us was not all we had hoped for, 
but was still sufficient to encourage us to preserve. We shall make the 
numbers of the present volume of the same size as those of the last—12 
pages. We shall, as in that volume, present Synopses of both Coleoptera 
and Lepidoptera; some descriptions of new species; life histories; de- 
scriptions of larva; papers of general interest; and a series of introductory 
articles on Coleoptera and Lepidoptera: designed, in the case of Coleop- 
tera as an introduction and aid to the use of the ‘‘Classification”; and in 
the case of Lepidoptera, to explain to beginners and_ students generally 
the characters of the families and genera, and how to place, at least 
approximately, any lepidopterous insect that may be found. These 
papers will be illustrated. In number 2 or 3 we will begin a monograph 
of the American Ca/o-a/a, to be illustrated by a plate giving structural 
peculiarities. 
We earnestly ask that our friends do aid us; first, by sending in 
items of interest, and occasional articles; second, by recommending our 
paper to their entomological friends; third, by sending in their subscript- 
ions at as early a date as possible. 
Money orders should be made payable to the society, and they, as 
well as all communications should be addressed to Joun B. Smiru, Editor, 
290 Third Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. 
