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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
many species, it is necessary to visit the 
lamps iu the early morning as well as at 
night. This should always be done with 
a ladder at hand, as many of the rarer 
insects settle in nooks and crannies or 
on projecting points of brickwork, &c., 
where, from the ground, they can hardly 
be seen and seldom obtained without 
injury. This of course is somewhat 
troublesome, and one is apt occasionally 
to be mistaken by one’s friends for a 
lamplighter ; but, as far as my experience 
has gone, it abundantly repays all 
trouble. I have selected the following 
from my captures during two or three 
seasons, the greater part of which I have 
taken in good condition : — 
P. Urticae. 
S. Illustraria. Common. 
E. Fuscantaria. 
E. Tiliaria. Common. 
B. Prodromaria. Do. 
G. Papilionaria. 
M. Alternata. Common in 1859. 
C. Fluviata. Do. 
S. Dubitata. 
C. Silaceata. 
E. Cervinata. Common. 
D. Hamula. Occasional. 
P. Cassinea. In profusion. 
P. Palpina. Common. 
N. Dicttea. Do. 
G. Petasitis. 
X. Conspicillaris. 
X. Aurago. 
D. Templi. 
Yours, fk c., 
Ojiicron. 
JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
To the Editor of the ‘ Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — In reply to Mr. Douglas, I must 
disown any attack on the Presidents. It 
is they who attacked absent persons. I 
only showed them how they might pre- 
vent the evil of which they complain, 
and that I believed it rested with them- 
selves to remove it. 
I am quite aware delay in the publica- 
tion of papers is often caused by the 
authors themselves, as witness some 
papers read three or four years ago and 
not yet out; but this is to be corrected, 
by a rule used at other Societies with 
effect, that no paper is read until it is in 
the hands of the Secretary. Yet, I ask, 
have not some papers been very recently 
withdrawn from the Entomological So- 
ciety, after being read, on account of the 
delay in their appearance, and has not 
one been recently read which the author 
made it a condition, before he presented 
it, that it should be printed within six 
months of its presentation, or he would 
send it elsewhere. 
I do most object strongly to the dictum , 
that “ there is no advantage an inde- 
pendent journal can offer that our own 
Society’s ‘ Transactions ’ cannot afford 
them.” 
There is always a certain amount of 
red-tapeism about Societies, where the 
fate of a paper depends on the caprice of 
a Committee and Council, which an 
independent journal does not present, 
where the appearance or non-appearance, 
and the time when the paper is sent to 
press and remains in the printer’s hands, 
depend on the energy of a single editor. 
But I was amused at being told by one 
of the officers of the Society that the rule 
of reference, which had been such a 
fertile source of delay, was not entirely 
got rid of, and could be revived at any 
time, as if he enjoyed the idea of having 
such an engine of delay in his hands. 
If this is the case, the ‘Journal’ 
cannot fail to be of great advantage to 
the progress of Entomology, a benefit to 
