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Hyale, we may suppose, would be of no use to the captor, 
and they would remain over for distribution to Lepidopterists 
in want of the species. One almost envies this hard-working 
collector the spectacle of their “unbiassed delight.” [am 
not perfectly informed whether this was the course taken by 
the captor of the eight hundred; but, if it was, he has 
doubtless made himself the most popular collector in the 
country. Far be it from me to say that this gentleman was 
anticipating “the modern school.” I merely suggest that 
such a feat of the old, free spirit of collecting scarcely 
answers to “a day’s enjoyment,” but savours rather of 
“ amassing specimens.” 
In the case of Leucophasia Sinapis the same reflections are 
suggested rather more strongly ; while Colias Hyale comes at 
one time in large numbers, and (whether captured or left 
alone) then disappears to return again after several years, the 
gentle creature Sinapis may no doubt be easily exterminated. 
I can picture to myself the dismay of a collector whose 
“honest” (but too thoughtless) “exertions” have unduly 
thinned the numbers of a local insect, and the care he will 
always in future take that a like result shall not again occur. 
But | can not picture (even to myself) the attitude of mind of 
a collector who knowingly and with determination extirpates 
Leucophasia Sinapis, and talks confidently afterwards of the 
deed being effectually done ! 
So much for these instances (the two strongest, I admit, 
that I have ever heard of); and I am happy to gather that in 
one way of regarding such feats I am in agreement with your 
correspondent. With him I cry, “Shame on these collectors!” 
But I must decline to collect “in the style of the good old 
times,” for these very instances I have mentioned belong (it 
will be understood) to the period which your correspondent 
regards approvingly. I desire to add something upon the 
status and public estimation of collectors. I am neither a 
reverend divine nor a person of large independent property, 
but I am accustomed to show, and to exact, civil treatment ; 
and out of London I have never found the contrary. I do not 
receive the snubbing which Mr. Cox has “ noticed” in various 
parts of England, and I hope he is under a misapprehension 
in regard to it. If, when I visit the New Forest (as I do in 
fact every summer), I carried off say a thousand Zygzena 
