THE 
WEEKLY EHTOMGKOGtST. 
“ENTOJIA QUIDQUH) AGENT NOSTKI EST FAliKAGO LIBELL1.” 
Vol. 2. No. 22.] SATURDAY, JULY 11, 18G3. 
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEINA. 
^ Y\UT of sight, out of mind,” is a 
very old but a very truthful 
saying. Two years ago the learned 
author of the book whose title heads 
this article, as editor of the “ Intelli- 
gencer,” frequently brought before 
his readers statements of the ad- 
vance which he was making in his 
work, and then everybody seemed to 
have an eye to the progress of the 
“ Natural History,” in his labours 
among the Tineina. During the 
last two years, the author of the 
book alluded to having ceased to be 
editor of the “Intelligencer,” the 
notices which formerly kept the 
public mind alive to the fact that dis- 
coveries in the Tineina were particu- 
larly wanted, have ceased to appear, 
consequently we fear the public 
mind has ceased to remember the 
fact. This week a short announce- 
ment appears in our pages from Mr. 
Stainton, which will, we hope, give 
a fresh impulse to observation and 
discovery. We have been much 
gratified by a perusal of the cata- 
logue referred to, as, indeed, every 
entomologist must be. Who can 
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fail to rejoice in knowing that 
materials are now in the proper 
hands for descriptions and figures of 
so larg’e a proportion of the entire 
group of Tineina, which will, we 
doubt not, be published in the same 
truly admirable manner that those 
already completed have been. 
On looking over Mr. Stainton’s 
catalogue referred to in his notice, 
we find nearly five hundred species 
enumerated, of all of whose larvce he 
possesses figures and descriptions. 
This is indeed a wonderful announce- 
ment, and speaks most unmistake- 
ably of the untiring energy of the en- 
tomologist, to whose exertions this 
marvellous advance in science is 
mainly owing. But a few years 
since the Tineina were almost un- 
known, for a species can scarcely be 
called “known” unless we have its 
life history. Now these atoms of 
creation are, perhaps, as well known 
as any group of insects, and cer- 
tainly on no group is there so 
minutely accurate a work as Mr. 
Stainton is publishing on the 
Tineina. 
The catalogue to which we have 
been refering, however, is not 
