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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
have passed ihrouf^h my hands, only one 
was a worker, which is described in 
Berendt’s work. I was therefore ex- 
ceedingly delighted, when, in the first 
specimen of Sicilian amber, I found 
workers of Termites, and several close 
together, as is usually the case with those 
found in anime. The specimen is besides 
decidedly Catanian amber, Jike all the 
other specimens in Hope’s collection, with 
the exception of one only, which is evi- 
dently East Prussian amber. The colour 
of the Sicilian amber is so peculiar, more 
- varied and more fiery than the East 
Prussian amber, that nobody who has 
seen much amher can easily he mistaken. 
A confusion with anime is rarely possible, 
and then certainty can always be attained 
by burning a small fragment, when the 
peculiar odour of amber would be per- 
ceptible. 
AMATEUR DEALERS. 
To the Editor of the * Intelligencer 
Sir, — I am sorry it has fallen to my 
lot to be able to second Messrs. Hawley 
and Gregson in their endeavour to put 
down the wholesale system that is now 
practised, which must, in the end, exter- 
minate many valuable species of insects. 
Some few years back I discovered the 
habitat of Myeloh vinguis, and made 
my friends acq/®'® ■'ith the locality, 
which locality r “Jed several times 
this season, r that the trees 
have been sd%ut and hacked in pursuit 
of the larva and pupa that the breed has 
been entirely destroyed. Last year I left 
numbers in the imago state that they 
might breed and supply others, as well 
as myself, but this year I hava only 
captured one. 
Another insect which was unique 
in my cabinet for many years (it 
was figured in Curtis’s work) has 
been taken, by a gentleman, in some 
abundanee, buf it is not to be obtained 
from him by the usual gentlemanly prac- 
tice of exchange, hut by purchase at ten 
shillings a specimen. 
Let dealers get as much as they pos- 
sibly can, but I think it infra dig for 
gentlemen to follow their example. 
Sir, 
I remain faithfully. 
No Pothunter. 
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