THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 229.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1861. ■ [Price Id. 
“I, FIRST.” 
“ I first,” writes a distinguished ento- 
mologist, who shall be nameless, “ de- 
tected this interesting addition to the 
British Fauna, by searching under the 
decaying leaves in the Groves of Blar- 
ney.” 
The entomological world reads with 
surprise and interest, and admires the 
ability, the acumen and the luck of 
the distinguished entomologist afore- 
said. 
A month later “ Albatross ” sends 
the following communication to some 
entomological journal : — 
“ Nemo is in error when he says 
that he first detected Ootes bradypus 
in Britain; I have long had specimens 
in my collection, having met with it 
in some plenty nearly ten years ago 
in a narrow lane leading from Goose 
Green ; the honour, therefore, of adding 
this species to our list is mine.” 
The entomological world reads and 
meditates ; wonders what Nemo will 
say in reply, and feels doubtful who 
is the real first detector of the hexa- 
pod. 
Two months pass by in silence, but 
then Nemo again rushes into the 
arena. 
“ Absence from home has alone pre- 
vented my replying sooner to the ill- 
tempered observations of Albatross in a 
recent number of this journal. Alba- 
tross seems to think, by announcing 
my captures of Ootes bradypus I have 
deprived him of something which is 
his by right; but I believe all im- 
partial readers will agree with me 
that if he was content to keep his 
specimens snugly concealed in his col- 
lection, he cannot blame me for an- 
nouncing the species as new to Britain. 
To refrain from recording his own 
captures, and to quarrel with those 
who record theirs, seems to me a line 
of conduct not unworthy of a dog in 
the manger ! ” 
In the very next page, however, of 
the same number of the same journal 
we meet with a third captor of the dis- 
puted insect, Scriptor, who writes: — 
“ Nemo and Albatross seem at va- 
riance as to which of them first met 
with the singular Ootes bradypus on 
British ground: it is unnecessary for 
them to discuss this matter further. 
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