THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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am I so much interested as the moths, in 
which, I must confess, your ‘Manual’ 
has led me to take a deep interest. 
The Rev. Dr. J. G. Morris, of Balti- 
more, is now engaged on the Noctuina; 
I want to make the Geometrina my spe- 
ciality for the present ; now can you (or 
some of your acquaintance) supply me 
with as complete a collection of European 
species as possible, and receive in ex- 
change some fifty species of Lepidoptera, 
and, with insects of all the other orders 
(save the Hymenoptera), making some 
five to eight hundred species in all ? 
You see our moths have not been worked 
up at all yet, and I must wait until a 
year or two before sending any away. 
If others of your acquaintance jvould 
like to exchange with me, I should be 
most happy to do so, receiving in ex- 
change any European Lepidoptera. I 
should not be able to send a collection 
before January next. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
Alpheus S. Packard, Jun. 
Boudoir College , 
Brunswick, Maine , U.S. ; 
Sept, 13, 1859. 
[We are unable ourselves to assist 
Mr. Packard in the way he wishes, but 
some of our readers may be glad of the 
opportunity here offered of obtaining 
Geometrina from the United States; 
perhaps the larva of Eupithecia assimilata 
shows further modifications in that distant 
region.] 
“list of entomologists” and 
“ EXAMINATIONS.” 
To the Editor of the ‘ Intelligencer,' 
Sir,— I should not have troubled you 
with this communication had it not been 
in som e measure called for by the leading 
article of No. 156. 1 conclude therefrom 
that you do not intend to adhere to the 
plan recommended some time since, by 
some two or three correspondents of high 
attainments in entomological lore, of 
establishing “ Examinations,” in order 
to draw a line of distinction between 
entomologists and collectors, — to sepa- 
rate the “ chaff from the wheat,” — and 
suggesting that none should appear in 
your “ List of Entomologists ” unless 
they had passed, or were competent to 
pass, such Examination. 
If this were insisted upon I think it 
would materially reduce the length of 
your List, and that at least nine-tenths 
of the names (and mine among the num- 
ber) would have to be struck out, thus 
leaving many pages for more erudite 
matter. 
You may therefore, if you please, insert 
my name and address as heretofore. 
I will only add to this that I do not 
see the utility of Examinations. They 
would not increase the pleasure and 
interest which the very many, who have 
taken up the pursuit of Entomology (or 
it may be of insects merely) as a relaxa- 
tion, now feel, but would rather tend to 
excite disgust instead of gratification. 
No doubt much might be said on both 
sides, but I will not now take up more 
of your time or space. 
Yours truly, 
Thomas Parry. 
Bank , Merthyr ; Sept. 29. 
A CALENDAR OF LEPIDOFTERA. 
October. 
Larvce. — Nos. 99, 108, 118, 119, 203, 
207, 264, 270, 431, 461, 472. 
