IV 
PREFACE. 
Department of the British Museum; and the Coleoptera, 
which have been most carefully elaborated by Mr. Janson, 
to a degree which has elicited the warm admiration of such 
celebrated Coleopterists as Mr. Waterhouse and Mr. Wol¬ 
laston. In future years I hope to be able, as a greater 
amount of talent becomes attracted to the ample field of 
Entomology, to introduce gradually other orders of insects, 
till ultimately the entire cycle of Entomology may be com¬ 
prised within this portable little book. 
Whenever the amount of scientific matter for the Annual 
is sufficiently limited, to allow of chapters of an amusing 
nature, relating to Entomology, being introduced, I shall 
certainly not fail to avail myself of the opportunity of 
adding some “dulce” to the “ utile,” satisfied that thereby 
the usef ulness of the work will in reality be increased. Many 
who would hesitate to get the Annual, if all dry and scientific, 
may be tempted by such amusing chapters, and so be gradu¬ 
ally induced to become readers of the more scientific parts, 
whereas it might otherwise only be sought after by those 
well advanced in Entomology, and therefore less in need 
of it. 
In preparing the Second Edition, I found myself able to 
expand the volume a little, and have therefore introduced 
“ An Address to young Entomologists at Eton, Harrow, 
Winchester, Rugby, and at all other Schools/’ and “ In¬ 
structions in collecting and preserving Lepidoptera and 
Coleoptera ,” which will, I hope, be found useful to those for 
whose benefit they arc intended. I hope that this increase 
in the size of this edition will not render the purchasers 
of the first edition dissatisfied with their bargain; as these 
chapters are quite elementary, they are comparatively useless 
