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the characters of every class, order, tribe, 
family and genus of our native marine 
animals, so arranged as to be suitable for 
ready reference, and a figure of every 
genus named, also a list of the species 
in every genus ; it is published in two 
porlable little volumes, and the price is 
only fifteen shillings ! I would advise 
that each of our leading entomologists 
should take an order, somewhat as 
follows: — 
Coleoplera. Waterhouse. 
Hemiptera. Dallas. 
Diptera. Walker. 
Hymenoptera. Smith. 
Neuroptera. Hagen. 
Lepidoptera {Macro). Doubleday. 
... {Micro). Stainton. 
Orthoptera. 
Aptera. 
Westwood. 
The work might then be published 
in numbers or as a whole, at as low 
a price as possible. I would advise in- 
troductory remarks before each order, 
with notes on habits, localities, col- 
lecting, preserving, &c. Such a book 
would do much to do away with “neg- 
lected orders.” 
Such are my remarks on this subject, 
which I offer to you and your readers, in 
all diffidence, hoping to see the opinions 
of others upon this subject. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
A Non-Japanese. 
THE BORDER WARFARE. 
To the Editor of the ‘Intelligencer.’ 
Sir, — I should have neither wasted 
time, paper, nor your pages in replying 
to Mr. Armstrong’s letter about several 
insects he says are taken near Carlisle, 
had he not charged me with misre- 
presentation, which is very easily said, 
but he is not able to prove it. I will 
not say very much on the subject, as I 
feel satisfied any discriminating mind 
will at once perceive his shifts to cover 
his ignorance. 
First, there is Pamphila Linea, of 
which he says he has a full series : he 
does not say now that he took them at 
Carlisle. I have a full series of the 
same species; but neither mine nor bis 
were taken in Cumberland. Next, he 
does not now say he took (or any one 
else yet) Halias Quercana near Carlisle, 
but contents himself with saying Prasi- 
nana occurs there, which no one ever 
doubted ; but unhappily he shifts Quer- 
cana into J Earias Clorana, which makes 
a compound blunder, as he never saw 
a specimen of Clorana yet taken in 
Cumberland : so much for those two 
species. 
Fie does not tell us where Sphinx 
Liguslri occurs near him, but enters 
into a long rigmarole about naturalizing 
Aglaia and Artemis — species which no 
one questioned being common Cumber- 
land insects. It would certainly have 
been more creditable had Mr. Armstrong 
at once corrected the errors when they 
were pointed out to him than have tried 
to creep out in the manner he has done. 
I have frequently seen corrections when 
parties have been made aware of their 
mistakes. He cannot plead ignorance 
of the error, as it was mentioned to him 
by a friend of mine in Carlisle before I 
sent my notes to you ; indeed several 
asked me if such were facts. I can 
assure you more than a Mr. Hodgkinson, 
of Preston, was staggered; a Mr. Allis, 
of York, who knows Cumbrian species 
well, met me in York the week after the 
