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may be enabled to resume our nets with the consciousness 
that the rows of weevils now standing in our drawers in 
dismal array unnamed, and with labels reversed, or (“ await¬ 
ing Walton’s Catalogue”) consigned to the repository re¬ 
proachfully yet hopefully endorsed “ Insecta non-determi- 
nata,” have at length been definitively arranged, and, 
wandering perchance with plying arm and watchful eye in 
search of some rare Curculio through the shady copse, gieen 
mead, or fragrant heath, chronicled, perhaps oft traversed, 
by Britain’s Schonherr, his name and the debt we owe him 
shall not be forgotten even in the collector’s ruling passion¬ 
ed 
amor habendi. 9f 
The “ Annals and Magazine of Natural History, of 
which the thirty-fourth volume is within a number of com¬ 
pletion, was the next object of research; the entoinologica 
papers, I allude to those on Coleoptera, contained in this 
important periodical, although numerically comparatively 
insignificant, are of the highest order, and, with one excep 
tion, the selection of the species appertaining to my ist 
occasioned me no difficulty. „ 
Mr. Andrew Murray’s “Catalogue of Scottish Coleoptera, 
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, lbod, 
next demanded my attention, and to this meritorious little 
book our list, as will be seen, is greatly indebted. 
The “ Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Northumberland and 
Durham,” by Messrs. Hardy and Bold, published in the 
“ Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, and 
also in a separate form, has contributed no insignificant num¬ 
ber of new species, particularly among the Braclielytra; and, 
although assuming the modest title of Catalogue, is rep ete 
with valuable observations, and the descriptions of new species 
leave nothing to be desired. . , „ 
“ The Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club 
bas likewise contributed to my undertaking. 
