Excerpt from Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, Vol. 16: January to December, 1904 Another volume has been completed, and we tender our heartiest thanks to the subscribers, contributors, and everyone who has in any way helped towards the continued success of the magazine. An overflowing supply of most interesting material has always been on hand, and we apologise most heartily to those whose contributions have not yet been published, and hasten to assure them that arrears will be cleared oft as quickly as possible. We were afraid at one time that the arid theme of synonymy and usage of names were about to overwhelm us, and, whilst not wishing to stifle such discussion altogether, on particular and essential difficult points and facts, we object to occupying valuable space with opinions, criticisms, and unimportant details, and prefer greatly to publish notes about the insects themselves, rather than about the names they do, or ought to, bear. We have been again particularly indebted to Professor Beare and Mr. Donisthorpe for their share of the work in providing and editing a continuous supply of notes on the Coleoptera, and also to Mr. Burr, who has kept alive the interest in the Orthoptera. Few of our recruits appear to take up the less worked orders, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, absorbing most of the work done. For the General Index this year we have to thank our friend, the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows; and for the Special Index, Professor Beare, Mr. Burr, Mr. Routledge, and Mr. Turner. These gentleman, by sharing the work, have already completed the index. The idea was to publish it with this number, but it appears that this can scarcely be done without delaying publication for a few days, which is hardly desirable. It will be sent out if possible with the January number, so as to lessen as much as possible the delay in binding. Our supply of plates this year has exceeded that of any previous volume. For help in producing these we are greatly indebted to Dr. T. A. Chapman, Mr. J. A. Clark, and Mr. J. C. Dollman. The three-colour photograph that was to have been published with no. 12 of the last volume, to illustrate Dr. Chapman's new Psychid, could not be completed until the publication of no. 3 of the current volume, with which it was published. We propose to make no marked alteration in our conduct of the magazine during the coming year. We shall be glad to receive, at any time, from contributors, blocks to illustrate insects described, or localities worked. Our series of "Practical Hints" will be continued during the spring and summer months. We particularly thank our subscribers for their kind response to our appeal as to the payment of subscriptions last year. Never before have the subscriptions been paid so promptly and with so little waste of effort. We trust that this satisfactory condition of aft airs will be maintained with the coming volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.