PREFACE. V 



for a Library Edition, we found practically there was no call 

 for it whatever, and the People's Shilling Edition has cer- 

 tainly not been appreciated in the way we had anticipated ; 

 no doubt the vast correspondence which is stimulated amongst 

 Entomologists by the " Intelligencer" runs away with many 

 of the " People's Pennies," and hence a gradual absorption 

 in other Entomological channels of the " People's Shillings." 



H. T. STAINTON. 



MOUNTSFIELD, LEWISHAM, S.E., 



December 12///, 1857. 



