THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Coriscium cuculipennellum on ash. Ac- 
cording to Hiibner, Frey and my own 
observations, this larra feeds in conically 
rolled leaves of the privet. I found it in 
similar habitations on the young shoots 
of sheltered ashes in garden hedges. The 
larvee only gnaw the interior of the cone, 
and assume the pupa state therein. The 
imago appears in autumn. 
AMATEUR DEALERS. 
To the Editor of the * Intelligencer/ 
Sir, — I have occasionally read with 
great satisfaction, in past numbers of 
the ‘ Intelligencer,’ your well deserved 
strictures on practices which — incon- 
sistent as they are with that generous 
and gentlemanly spirit in which all 
scientific pursuits should be carried ou — 
are nevertheless adopted by some who 
call themselves entomologists. 
In penning a few remarks in the 
same strain, I must be distinctly under- 
stood to make no allusion to those who 
openly and honestly make a business of 
Natural History; with such we deal 
on recognised principles as honourable 
tradesmen; but there is a genus of col- 
lectors which I consider especially de- 
serving of reprobation, and this genus 
includes those who — professing to rank 
as genuine sportsmen — are, in reality, 
mere pot-hunters. These gentry — while 
mean enough to profit on all occasions 
by the gratuitous liberality of others — 
will as soon part with one of their teeth 
as with a moth, unless for value received ; 
and when, by any means, they have ob- 
tained from some unsuspecting indi- 
vidual the precise locality of a rarity, 
that individual may take his leave of it 
thenceforth, for they will run fit to burst 
themselves to forestall him in its capture, 
that they may sell it to some one else : 
and, worst of all, — such is their greedy 
anxiety to obtain for themselves, and 
more especially to prevent others from 
obtaining, local or saleable species, — 
they will hunt a locality so incessantly, 
that not a single imago has the shadow 
of a chance to elude their vigilance and 
perpetuate its kind; or they will grub 
up every fragment of the food-plant of 
the larvae during its feeding season, lest 
a single individual should escape them, 
so that, either way, the species is effectu- 
ally exterminated. 
Now, Sir, both the selfish spirit by 
which these collectors are actuated, and 
the system of extermination in which it 
results, are alike unpardonable, and the 
only way to put an end to such dis- 
graceful practices is unhesitatingly to 
expose, and resolutely to refuse all cor- 
respondence with, those who are guilty 
of them. 
I have been moved to write these 
remarks by having observed an amateur 
collector of this town — whose name may 
be found in the ‘Intelligencer’ in con- 
nection with certain lists of Lepidoplera 
advertised for sale — returning day after 
day with huge bags full of Silene infiata, 
a plant of very local occurrence in this 
neighbourhood, and, as I happen to know 
the district from whence it has been 
gathered, I will venture to say neither 
Venosata, Carpophaga nor Cucubali, &c., 
will be seen there again for many a 
day. 
I shall probably, with your permission, 
revert to this subject at a future day. 
Yours, ■See., 
J. Hawley. 
55, Hall Gate, Doncaster ; 
July 22. 
