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and scientific result, which is *' well worth the candle," but 

 setting puts the matter out of court; and the hundreds of hours 

 I liave spent on setting I consider educationally wasted. I 

 collect for a hobby — I treat it as such. 



We are sure to have a plentiful addition of young recruits to 

 our ranks. A mild form of science, coupled with a fine field for 

 recreation, both in mind and body, is sure to attract a fair 

 number of workers in the cause. But let them enter under the 

 " true colours." Don't try to entice them into our ranks with 

 the idea that their education will thereby be materially improved, 

 but show them that it is a most healthful pastime to those who 

 have leisure, and can afford to spend time and energy on a 

 pursuit that must bring them a vast amount of personal 

 satisfaction and pleasure. 



To the man seeking for education in entomological pursuits, 

 I would say, — make a small typical collection of the great group 

 Insecta ; or, better still, if the student desires to take a wider 

 field, of the families Annulosa and Mollusca. Classify correctly 

 by all means, have good perfect specimens as far as possible ; but 

 if the student's time is limited, let setting go to the wall. The 

 collection would not be worth much to those who buy Natural 

 History specimens, like some people buy "old pots"; but the 

 educational value of such a collection to the individual making it 

 can hardly be over-estimated. 



Snowsfield's Board School, Bermondsey, S.E., August 22, 1887. 



NOTES UPON NEPTICULIDiE. 



By J. B. HODGKINSON. 



On the 13th of April I reared four specimens of Nepticula 

 hodgkinsoni from a variety of garden rose, and from the same 

 shrub three others of the genus, two of which are as large as 

 iV. aurella ; possibly they are of the latter species, though they 

 were reared in sealed and labelled boxes. In the same month I 

 bred what should be N. splendidissimella, from leaves of dewberry 

 {Ruhus ccesius) which I gathered near Southport in September 

 previously. My experience of splendidissimella coincides with 

 that of the late John Sang, that it is a strictly raspberry-leaf 



