THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 182.] SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1800. [Price Id. 
W I N T E E. 
“ Every thing has an end,” says 
the proverb, and therefore we presume 
there will be an end to the winter of 
1859-60, which set in rigorously the 
middle of October, and has held un- 
disturbed sway ever since. 
Little, we fancy, has yet been done 
in sugaring since the turn of the year; 
and as for sallows, only the most 
ardent of the rising generation have 
yet ventured to dream of them. 
According to the almanacks Spring 
commenced on Wednesday-daSt, so that 
we ought, as we are a practical people, 
fond of figures, to look upon Winter 
as a thing of the past. May we have 
no cause to alter our opinions on that 
poiut! We almost seem to realize to 
ourselves the feelings of Arctic voyagers 
when, after a four months’ absence, the 
sun first pokes its nose up on the 
southern horizon. 
We trust now that we shall soon 
receive the customary announcements 
of captures. Every one will naturally 
rush out into the fields and woods 
with uuusual zest after the long 
confinement, and we hope they will 
not omit to chronicle some of their 
doings. 
The Hemiptera, which are now re- 
ceiving an increased amount of atten- 
tion, are extremely desirous to appear 
in print, and those who are now 
working at them are particularly re- 
quested to communicate occasionally 
notices of captures and observations 
of habits, &c. Each separate scrap 
may seem in itself, to the individual 
writer, as worthless, but it is the col- 
lection of such scraps that produces 
ultimate effect : non vi sed scepe cadendo. 
The history of these gaudy dealers in 
perfumery has yet to be written in 
detail; but before the house can be 
built we must have bricks. All can 
work at collecting the bricks, and 
when a goodly pile of them is con- 
veniently at hand, the probability is 
great that an architect will be forth- 
coming. * 
Coleopterists who have exhausted 
their respective districts, and who have 
been in the habit of turning bugs out 
of their water-nets, will now be dis- 
posed to view these creatures more 
kindly, and those who have hitherto 
neglected the Hemiptera which harbour 
under moss will now find a new field 
of interest opened to them. 
The Lepidopterist who has caught 
numberless flying bugs, mistaking them 
for moths, will now he more disposed 
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