to the A7iimadversions of Mr, Davis, 495 



No. xL, which contains six sheets and nine figures (two ordi- 

 nary numbers, for 5s.)^ or No. xxxv. part 2., which contains 

 more than an ordinary number, for which 25. 6d. only was 

 charged. Again, how carefully he conceals the fact that the 

 third volume of Mandibulata contains 24 sheets instead of 18, 

 while he claims " at least three more sheets" to complete that 

 of Haustellata, at the time when 37 instead of 36 sheets had 

 been published towards the third volumes ; and, although forty- 

 eight figures out of fifty-four had appeared, he claims two 

 plates of six figures each to make up the assumed deficiency, 

 as boldly as if his mere assertions were matters of fact ! 



Before I conclude, I must add a word respecting the com- 

 pletion of the third volume of Haustellata, which I proposed 

 that 4ny subscribers should receive gratis, as, it is evident, will 

 be the case, however dissonantly to the practices o^ trade I may 

 have carried my designs into execution. The third volumes 

 are now terminated : consequently, as they contain ten extra 

 sheets, and are sold for the original price, the additional 

 quantity, recently published, has been given gratis, notwith- 

 standing, in their publication, they have been blended with 

 the fourth volumes, which will also contain at least thirty-six 

 sheets, as stipulated, and the six deficient figures. And it 

 may be remarked, that the blending of the volumes (a point 

 by no means unusual in periodicals), although liberally attri- 

 buted by Mr. Davis to design, stimulated by cupidity *, which 

 I utterly disclaim, was solely the effect of accident, occasioned 

 by my determination to carry each volume to the point fixed 

 upon for their respective limits, so as ultimately to comprise 

 the work in (the eighty-one numbers, or) thirteen volumes, 

 at \l. 11 5. 6d. each half-bound, without rigidly adhering to the 

 eighteen sheets proposed for each volume respectively. Where- 

 as, had I been actuated by the feelings alluded to, the third 

 volume of Mandibulata would have stopped at the eighteenth 

 sheet, which appeared in December ; and the matter of the 

 January number would then have sufficed to complete the cor- 

 responding volume of Haustellata ; the points I had determined 



* When I state that, from some of my friends preferring the work in 

 volumes, several copies of the third volumes cannot be distributed by me 

 until they are completed and bound, it appears paradoxical how the exten- 

 sion of the volume can arise from cupidity ; and whether my actions in the 

 prosecution of the work are stimulated by that feeling, especially when I 

 add that tivo thirds of my actual expenses have not yet been repaid^ may be 

 appreciated by remarking, that, in order to enable me to proceed with my 

 Illustrations y I have refused very lucrative offers from my own publishers, 

 and also from Messrs. Murray, Griffith, and others, to edit works on ento- 

 mological subjects, unaccompanied by personal expense^ by which I have 

 sacrificed several hundreds of pounds. 



