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Hampstediensis,* Cliimbora2ium,t ZamboaDga,J Mahallakoena,§ Madagaseariensis,|| «fcc., 

 were bestowed on rare and love! j insects by the giants of Entomology, men from whose dictum 

 there can scarcely be an appeal. 



I have now I trust done my duty towards Mr. Saunders, I can but make my salaam, 

 reiterate my thanks, and adjure him not again to let his emotioas so far overpower him as to 

 make him lose his temper in the futile attempt to prove I liad lost mine, a thing which I 

 scrupulously avoid, as it unfits one for business or rational pleasures and, worst of all, it spoils 

 digestion, Heemax Streckee, Reading, Pa. 



The following letter, which I received just as the above was going to press, needs no 

 comment of mine, and a,? I have the writer's permission to use it as I please, I think the very 

 best use I can make of it is to lay it before the "Entomological World, " not with the im- 

 pression, however, that it will be astonished thereat after reading the foregoing pages : 



Boom 4, Xo. 117 Bboadwat, New Yoek, Angnst 5, 1873. 



My Dear Sir : — You Lave doubtless read Mr. Sarmders' reply to yonr observation? in the 2nd No. of your book. 

 Not very satisfactory to yon, I presume, and not very creditable to Saunders. 



The reply, however, recall^ to my memory a circumstance which occurred now about a year rince, and which is 

 strongly illustrative of Saunders' supercilious behavior, as I deem it 



Believing him to have access to better libraries and larger collections than were within my reach, and further- 

 more induced by the invitation extended to amateurs in columns of the Canadian Entomologist, to send their collec- 

 tions to the Society for determination, I sent by the hand of a pereonal friend a box of insects with the proper request. 



Not being sure that either Mr. Bavnes E«ed or Mr. Saunders was in London, I requested my friend to deliver 

 the box to either party. 



I did not feel quite sure of my friend, so after waiting a coi^le of months, without receiving any notice of the 

 receipt of the box, I wrote both to B«ed and Satmders enquiring if they had received such box. No answer came 

 from either. I then caused enquiries to be made of my friend as to whom the box had been delivered, and the 

 answer came, " to Mr. Saunders, on the day after my arrival in London." I again waited, perhaps another month, 

 but no box, or acknowledgement of its receipt, arrived. 



I then wrote again to .Saunders, stating all the circumstances, and requesting return of box, but up to this mo- 

 ment no reply or notice of any kind has been receiy^. 



As I am Agent here for the Entomologist, and have certainly done something toward extending its circulation, 

 I call this rather cavalier treatment, while even towards a stranger I think Mr. Satmders' conduct, (to use his own 

 words,) " to be unworthv a naturalist or a gentleman."' Yours, truly, 



AV.' V. ANDEEWS. 



You are at liberty to make any use you please of this note. 



It js reported that Commander Greer of the Tigress, the vessel which sailed a short time 

 since in search of the crew of the Polaris, has said that there is to be no time wasted pickling 

 fish, bottling bugs, &c. ; that the expedition will attend only to the object of its mission — the 

 finding of the Polaris. If he even thought so, it is a disgrat* to give utterance to such expres- 

 sions, for, if but one new fact in science were attained, what, in comparison, are whole heca- 

 tombs of paltry human lives, which, as one flickers out, legions arise to fill the place. When 

 thousands have again and again been ignobly, ruthlessly, sacrificed in useless and foolish wars, 

 the ofispring of insane ambition, why should any one murmur at life endangered, or lost, in 

 the noble cause of science. 



*Cynthia HampstediensLs, .Steph. 



jNymphidinm Chimborazium, Bates. 



JPieris Zamboanga, Feld. 



JLycaena MahaUakoena. Walker. 



I^Godartia Madagascariensi^, Lucas, and Crenis Madagascariends, Boisd. 



