THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 170.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1859. [Price Id. 
‘THE ANNUAL.’ 
We fear some of our readers will have 
been expecting an earlier announce- 
ment of the publication of ‘ The 
Entomologist’s Annual for I860;’ how- 
ever, it is now a fait accompli, and 
the amount of work in the colouring 
of the Plate, and the delay caused 
by dark and foggy days to the pro- 
gress of colouring, must be our excuse 
for the volume making its debut a 
few days later than usual. 
The “ List of Entomologists,” now 
increased to 1223, occupies a large 
portion of the volume, and yet we 
have received upwards of a score of 
additional names since our Entomo- 
logical Directory was printed. Truly, 
the number of collectors in this country 
seems to be unlimited. 
We regret, however, to record that 
one entomologist, whose name now ap- 
pears in our list for the first time, is 
no more. 
William Bentley, formerly of 
Critchell Place, New North Road, 
who, twelve or thirteen years ago, 
occupied a very prominent place 
among the Lepidopterists of this 
country, died, in the beginning of 
December, at the age of seventy. 
Some years ago Mr. Bentley retired 
from the active pursuit of Entomology, 
and sold his collection, which forms 
the nucleus of Mr. Shepherd’s magni- 
ficent collection. 
If those who are curious in such 
matters will turn to the pages of the 
‘ Entomologist ’ and of the earlier 
volumes of the ‘ Zoologist,’ they will 
find that Mr. Bentley acted as a 
pioneer for Mr. Doubleday in ruth- 
lessly slaying the multitudinous spe- 
cies which Haworth had created out 
of mere varieties. 
At page 254 of the ‘ Entomologist * 
will be found his “ Observations on 
Species and Varieties ” of the genus 
Ayrotis, and, at p. 316, similar obser- 
vations on tbe genus Caradrina. Some 
living authors, in their haste to criticise 
Haworth, omit to notice that he wrote 
according to the lights which he had 
at the time; to this fact, however, 
William Bentley called particular at- 
tention in the introduction to his ob- 
servations on Caradrina. 
“ It must be acknowledged that when 
the varieties in this genus were first 
named and described by the author of 
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