COLLOQUIA ENTOMOLOGICA. 1 1 



There, one contributor sends me a new invention for catching- 

 tadpoles ; another, sixteen sheets, closely written in black ink, 

 and closely crossed in red, and wishes it set up in large type, 

 as Mr. How-d'ye-call-him always prints in that way, and 

 allows six guineas per sheet paid in advance, which you are 

 respectfully requested to remit directly ;— a third wants a 

 receipt for killing fleas ; — a fourth sends one for kilUng bugs ; 

 — a fifth selects original poetry from the Penny Magazine, at 

 the moderate charge of one-pound-one ; — a sixth gives a long 

 tale about a monster which frightened his wife into fits, and 

 sends the monster itself in a wine-glass, with the lid of a 

 tobacco-box tied on the top for fear of accident, — the monster 

 turns out to be a common honey-bee ; — a seventh transmits 

 nineteen hundred and fifty-three insects, to be named, which 

 have been collected in sugar-bottles, but which have been duly 

 dried in the sun, and squeezed into a tea-cup; — an eighth 

 ingeniously economises space, by striking four on one pin, 

 and kindly permits me to print the list when named ; — a ninth 

 questions whether the Magazine is not too large ; — a tenth 

 questions whether it is not too small ; an eleventh suggests 

 that it should be printed in twelvemo ;— a twelfth recommends 

 quarto ; — a thirteenth insists on its being monthly ; — a four- 

 teenth thinks that once a year would be often enough ; — a 

 fifteenth declares it is too scientific ; — a sixteenth, that it is too 

 popular, et cetera, et ceterae, et cetera. Oh ! — 



An Editor leads an easy life ; 

 The pleasures, &c. 



One author complains, that his work has been published two 

 months, and I have not noticed it ; — another, that i have pointed 

 out his defects, and not his merits ; — a third, that I have mis- 

 understood his meaning; — a fourth, that his errors were only 

 typographical ; — seven, that I don't make enough of them ; — 

 (O, I should like to buy all the Entomologists at my valuation, 

 and sell them at their own !) — A twelfth, that I was influenced 

 by envy ; — a thirteenth, that I espouse a party ; — a fourteenth, 

 that his philosophy deserved an analysis — which, by the way, 

 I had tried, and found the only element, smoke ; — a fifteenth 

 looks hot at me ; — a sixteenth looks cold at me ; — a seven- 

 teenth looks lukewarm ; — an eighteenth grumbles that I 

 praised So-and-so's book ; — a nineteenth grumbles that I did 



