THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 130.] SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1859. [Price Id. 
THE ‘MANUAL.’ 
hand, we trust our readers will not 
Some of out readers do not tale in 
the ‘ Manual ’ in numbers ; they are 
waiting till the volume is completed. 
These persons will not have seen the 
statement which we gave to the world 
on the wrapper of the last number of 
the ‘ Manual.’ Therefore for their espe- 
cial enlightenment, we repeat what we 
there said about the “Completion of 
the ‘Manual.’” 
“ Our readers will be anxious to 
hnow when the ‘ M anual ’ is to reach 
its termination. In the present num- 
ber the Tortbicina are completed and 
the Tixeina commenced. The latter 
group comprises 650 British species. 
This is upwards of 150 species more 
than were treated of in the first 
volume of the ‘ Manual,’ and is nearly 
as many as the species already intro- 
duced in the preceding eleven numbers 
of the second volume. Exerting our 
utmost powers of compression, we find 
that it will take seven more numbers 
to complete the Tineina and the 
Plumes, with the Appendix, &c. Now 
26 7 = 33 ; so that the work will 
reach its completion with the thirty- 
third number. Our first announcement 
was ‘ To be completed in about thirty 
monthly numbers,’ and considering the 
difficulties attendant on making an 
approximate calculation so long before 
be annoyed at the prospect of three 
numbers beyond the promised thirty. 
Delay will not thereby be occasioned, 
as it is now intended to commence an 
issue of double numbers, and accord- 
ingly Nos. 27 and 28 will be published 
together on the 1st o’ next month, 
price 6d., and Nos. 29 and 30 will 
follow on the 1st of May. 
We trust no one will take alarm at 
the idea of our “ exerting our utmost 
powers of compression,” for our object 
is of course to combine brevity with 
intelligibility, and we have no inten- 
tion to imitate the celebrated ento- 
mologist w'ho squashed a black-beetle 
in the hinge of a door, and then 
described it as a new species of 
flea. 
Length of description frequently helps 
an author to conceal his own defects, 
just as it is possible to use very learned 
diction, and yet to have no clear notion 
of what one is really meaning. 
In treating of the larvae of the 
Tixeina, we have aimed at giving 
short descriptions of all those nume- 
rous species which we have at different 
times described for the voluminous 
‘ Natural History of the Tineina.’ 
The descriptions are now all written, 
even the Plumes have been de- 
scribed,— so that the work will be con- 
