THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 224.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1861 [Price Id. 
IN-DOORS, 
Thebe is not much to be done in 
entomological matters out-of-doors just 
at present, so that those who want to 
be actively employed in their favourite 
Science must be content to work in- 
doors. 
But there is no real lack of work, 
as those who are now busy in adding 
to their knowledge respecting Phry- 
ganidae and Hemiptera are well aware. 
When one is tired of civilized life 
now-a-days one takes a trip to the 
interior of Africa, or ascends the 
Amazons. 
The used-up man of science, sick of 
the conventionalities of Lepidoptera 
and Coleoptera, in like manner, solaces 
himself with turning up some terra 
incognita, and feels both invigorated 
and enlivened by the process. But 
surely move might avail themselves of 
this healthy and seasonable occupa- 
tion than have hitherto tried it: the 
pleasure of travelling in a new country 
is one of a very high order, and he 
who takes an excursion for a few 
weeks in some little - explored — optera 
would perhaps be surprised at the 
novel and pleasurable sensations he 
would experience; only he must stop 
long enough in the new country to 
learn the language of the natives, so 
as not to be misled by any erroneous 
conceptions he may form on his first 
entry into the new country, when, 
from ignorance and a want of due 
appreciation of cause and effect, he 
is very apt to assign to the natives 
habits and dispositions which do not 
really belong to them. A long and 
careful study will dissipate this class 
of errors by degrees, and the voyager 
will then reap the full benefit of his 
travels. 
We began by writing about sitting 
in-doors, and here we find ourselves 
travelling in a foreign country; but it 
is mainly on the principle of anti- 
thesis that we recommend this plea- 
sant change. At Christmas we enjoy 
reading descriptions of July weather 
far more than we do in June or 
August, — that which is furthest off, 
and thus presents the greatest contrast, 
always appearing the most pleasant. 
To thoroughly change the current 
of ideas there is nothing like taking 
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