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sponded with my father, and his letters were curi- 

 osities in their way, being as full as they could hold 

 of entomological lore, varied by animated arguments 

 and discussions on various points connected with 

 insects and his collections, together with not a few 

 eccentricities of diction. He usually wrote at great 

 length, and his epistles contained so many Latin 

 names of moths and butterflies that, at the first 

 glance, it seemed as though he might be writing 

 some unintelligible Latin exercise. Here are one 

 or two extracts from a letter under date Glanvilles 

 Wootton, near Sherborne, 3rd October 1842 : 



" I have just heard from your doctor, and he 

 has given a hint which I take at once for fear of 

 exciting your wrath against me for not giving you 

 a specimen of my handwriting since your last non- 

 entl: epistle. If you want to hear what I have 

 done lately in collecting only, that will be very 

 short almost amounting to just nothing at all 

 one Percenea cristana, Sarrothripus Afzelianus one, 

 Leptogramma Squamana one, Tortrix piceana one, 

 one Death's Head sent from Sherborne wh. yr. 

 ' Counsellor ' took to London to a friend. I believe 

 this is nearly all I have taken, but not all I have 

 added. I have a box here now of Scotch insects 

 from Weaver ; . . . a new Crambus allied somewhat 

 between Bacccestria, Sylvallus, and Dumetorium. . . . 

 A new Oporobia (Potato, Duponchell) has been taken 

 in Scotland and near Manchester in plenty ; it bears 

 the same affinity to O. Dilutata as P. Artaxerxes to 

 Agestis, and Davus to Typhon, &c. Mr. Haworth 



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