THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 144.] SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1859. [Price Id. 
Apamea Ophiogramma. (See p. 107.) 
‘THE MANUAL.’ 
‘The Manual of British Butterflies and 
Moths’ is now completed. 
Part 33, concluding the work, was 
published on the 1st instant, and the 
second volume may now he had, in 
cloth, uniform with the first volume, for 
the sum of five shillings and sixpence. 
The entire work therefore will cost the 
purchaser ten shillings. 
‘ The Manual ’ contains descriptions 
of all the British Lepidoptera known up 
to the time when it was written. Several 
new species have been discovered during 
the progress of the work, and several 
other new species will be met with 
during the next three months. An Ap- 
pendix might have been written to in- 
clude the first-named novelties, but it 
was deemed more advisable not to en- 
cumber the work with the additional 
species in an Appendix, more especially 
as by no contrivance could we pre- 
vent the capture of new species after 
the volume had been brought to a 
close. 
Nay, we rather apprehend that the 
‘Manual’ will tend to render itself in- 
complete, as, by increasing the number 
of students of the Lepidoptera, it must 
facilitate the discovery of new species. 
Our own experience of appendicular 
notes is decidedly against them, as we 
believe, nine times in ten, they are over- 
looked by the reader. 
We are aware that a large number of 
our readers have had their copies of 
the ‘Manual’ interleaved, and no doubt 
they will insert on the blank pages the 
notices of the new species which will 
appear from time to time in the ‘ An- 
nual ’ or in our own pages. 
Little more than three years have 
elapsed since the appearance of the 
first number of the ‘ Manual,’ and though 
we are aware that to the natural im- 
patience of youth its progress has at 
times appeared tedious, yet we fancy 
the successive numbers have appeared 
nearly as fast as a thorough student 
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