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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCES. 
boxes without first writing. — F. A. Jesse, 
Gordon House , The Grove , Kentish Town 
London. 
Exchange. — Having the numbers ap- 
pended to each of the following species 
more than I want for my own purpose, I 
shall he glad to exchange them all for 
some of my desiderata. 
Blandina (3) 
Cardui (12) 
W-album (1) 
Quercus (4) 
Alsus (3) 
iEgon (26) 
Trifolii (8) 
S. Populi (14) 
Hectus (6) 
iEsculi (18) 
Dispar (14) 
Auriflua (12) 
Complaua (3) 
Lacertinaria (4) 
Diluta (18) 
Flavicornis (4) 
Megacephala (4) 
Pallens (12) 
Augur (14) 
C-nigrum (4) 
Triangulum (4) 
Brunnea (10) 
Gothica (6) 
Instahilis (8) 
Populeti (3) 
Stabilis (24) 
Munda (4) 
Cruda (10) 
Upsilon (8) 
Rufina (40) 
Pistacina (46) 
Vaccinii (46) 
Ferruginea (16) 
Pro tea (6) 
Chenopodii (4) 
Thalassina (10) 
Tragopogonis (6) 
Nupta (4) 
Rhomboidaria (4) 
Punctulata (16) 
Punctaria (6) 
Pendulatia (10) 
Remutata (8) 
Piniaria (4) 
Munitata (4) 
Corylata (3) 
Tristata (10) 
Tarsipennalis (3) 
Costalis (10) 
Flammealis (10) 
Stratiotalis (8) 
Alpinalis (2) 
Decrepitalis (3) 
Pinguis (22) 
Juniperata (about 9 
dozen, fine) 
Correspondents not hearing from me per 
third post will please conclude I am 
not wanting what they offer. — Address, 
James Biiyant, care of Housekeeper , 
63, Old Broad Street, London, E.C. ; 
January 10. 
To the Editor of the * Intelligencer,' 
Sir, — I advise the gentleman “ who 
wishes to please” to remember the 
fable of the “ Old Man and his Ass.” 
I enclose my card, and beg to re- 
main 
Yours obediently, 
Independent. 
COKIOSITY. 
Without this is no man born. In our 
infancy, and long before we can rightly 
understand why it is we do things, it is 
at work within us. Our whole lives are 
filled with it, from the cradle to the 
grave. It is to us what the dog is to 
the blind beggar: it leads us into the 
highways and byeways, the streets and 
alleys, that we may stand and cry “ Poor 
blind man.” The piteous story, like a 
coffin-plate upon his breast, reaches the 
pocket of the passer-by through his 
curiosity to learn its contents; then there 
is the piece of money dropped into the 
hat, and down goes the hand to see of 
what value it is, and so he wanders on 
and on, gathering as he goes. Curiosity 
led the boy to dissect the bellows that he 
might find out where the wind came 
from. It leads one traveller to the pyra- 
mids, another into the prairie, and a third 
to hunt up the birth of the world. It is 
in every blow of the geologist’s hammer. 
It dug up the records of Nmeveh : and 
so, whether we examine ourselves as to 
our business or turn unto our pleasure, 
there is to be found the precursor — 
curiosity. All kinds of ologists have it 
largely developed; and, to bring the 
subject to our own particular Science — 
