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that the production of this work will prove the means of bringing into 

 the same field a number of labourers as energetic and accomplished 

 as the author of the promised Manual. 



The concluding paper, entitled " Observations on Tineina," is by 

 the Editor, Mr. Stainton, whose name is a guarantee for its excel- 

 lence. 



The Journal of Entomology. 



Parts 7, 8 and 9, being the commencement of Vol. ii, have appeared 

 during the past season : the high character of the Journal is fully 

 upheld by the papers of Mr. Wallace, JVir. Pascoe, Mr. Baly, Mr. 

 Wollaston, Mr. McLachlan, Prof. Westvrood, the Rev. Hamlet Clart 

 and Dr. Schaum. 1 would particularly call the attention of the 

 younger members to some exceedingly valuable advice by Prof, 

 Westwood, forming an Introduction to a " Description of a new 

 Species of Longicorn Beetle :" his words are those of matured expe- 

 rience ; had the author himself had the advantage of such experience 

 to guide him in his early Entomological years, he would not have 

 fallen into the error which he now so properly condemns; I am sure 

 he would be the first to admit this ; therefore his advice comes with 

 double authority. 



Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean Society. 



In the 'Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' published 

 in 1863, are two papers by myself; the first contains descriptions of 

 new species of Hymenoptera collected by Mr. Wallace in the islands 

 of Mysol, Ceram, Waigiou and Bouru ; the second is entitled 

 " Notes on the Geographical Distribution of the Aculeate Hyme- 

 noptera collected by Mr. Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago." Mr. 

 Walker has contributed three papers to the same Journal : these 

 form part of a Catalogue of Heterocerous Lepidopterous Insects col- 

 lected by Mr. Wallace at Sarawak, in Borneo : seventy-nine new spe- 

 cies are described, and eleven new genera established. 



Illustrations of Exotic Entomology. 



Three Parts of Mr. Hewitson's 'Illustrations of Exotic Lepidoptera' 

 have been published during the past season ; forty-two new species 

 are figiu-ed, and five figures are also given of species previously de- 

 scribed by other authors. This is certainly one of the most beautiful 

 works on Lepidoptera that has appeared in this country : some of the 

 species figured are amongst the most lovely of the tribe to which 



