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have embraced the name of every species then published as British. The following, however, 

 is a correct census of the number described at the end of the year 1812:— viz. 



Species 



" COLEOPTERA 1371 



" Hemiptera (including Orthoptera and Homoptera) .... 252 



" Lepidoptera 1357 



" Neuroptera 55 



" Hymenoptera (excluding Kirby's Bees) 198 



" DlPTERA 196 



" Aptera .• 54 



3483 

 " Add Bees 189 



" Total in 1812 3672 



" During the compilation of the early portion of this Catalogue I was burning with 

 anxiety to commence Entomology practically, by collecting specimens, &c, remote from the 

 busy hum of men (little dreaming that abundance might have been obtained throughout the 

 winter 3 ); and as a quietus to my anxiety, I purchased at 3d. each examples of the following 

 twenty insects from the late Mr. Ratley, of the late ' Duke's Court/ now a portion of the site 

 of the Royal Academy : — viz. 



1. Cicindela campestris. 11. Anomala hordeola. 



2. Carabus violaceus. 12. Cetonia aurata. 



3. monilis. 13. Coccinella 1-punctata. 



4. Colymbetes bi-pustulatus. 14. variabilis. 



5. Lucanus Cervus. 15. dispar. 



6. Copris lunaris. 16. Slaps mortisaga. 



7. Geotrupes stercorarius. 17. Cidaria viridata. 



8. Aphodius fimetarius. 18. Panorpa communis. 



9. Melolontha vulgaris. 19. Scatophaga stercoraria. 

 10. Serica brunnea. 20. Nepa cinerea. 



" And a goodly assemblage I esteemed it ! ! ! On the February, 1810, a brilliant sunny 



day, I for the first time entomologically 'wended my way' towards the fields in the vinicity 

 of Hornsey Wood, and was (as I conceived) rewarded by catching Aphodius fimetarius, 



Geotrupes stercorarius, Sphceridium dermestoides, and a minute Phryganea P , at so 



early a period of the year, thus adding two new species to my important collection, and seeing 

 two others alive. My collection consequently at this period amounted to twenty-two species ; 

 but with the occasional companionship of my medical friend, before alluded to, who was then 

 'walking the Hospitals' as it is termed, I managed gradually to augment my stores, until I had 



1 On 1st January, 1825, I filled at Ripley, in less than half an hour, a tin canister, holding about a quart, with 

 moss, selected from different likely spots at the foot of an old wall, the produce of which amounted to 412 dozens 

 and 7, or 4951 insects. 



