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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
weather must affect the supply of in- 
sects, and, in different districts, differ- 
ently. A wet season cannot but 
,-cn it, in an ordinarily dry part of 
the country, while producing a con- 
trary result in a locality that abounds 
in marsh and fen, of coarse, vice versa 
in a dry season. Perhaps our grum- 
bling friend lives in a marshy district. 
If so, let him remember that all can- 
not stand a wet season as well as he. 
This is not, however, what we 
most desire to say, and so, having 
cleared the way, we will now pass on 
to a practical conclusion. “If, Sir, 
you have been successful, this year, 
how do you expect we are to know it. 
We see no remark to that effect in our 
columns. You dont know how many 
timourous beginners, seeing such an 
ominous announcement is made in 
our first paragraph of this week, may 
draw back from the science. Of course, 
we cannot tell what insects you have 
been getting, if you never let us 
know. At any rate, if you, by your 
silence have led us into error, you 
can set us right now. Better late than 
never. Sit down at once, by all 
means, and, with the help of your 
specimens and note-book, write an 
account of your captures.” 
We are compelled, before closing, 
to put a question that our predecessor, 
the “ Intelligencer ” had to ask in 
its day; — “ Who bids for the bujs ?”, 
“ and,” we might add, “ for the flies 
and grasshoppers?” Judging from 
our pages, we should say that no one 
has yet been found to take them up, 
and clear their character from the 
implied imputation of want of in- 
terest. We are glad to see that 
beetles are not wholly passed over, 
but we should like to know more than 
we do yet of what Coleoptrists are 
doing. If this happens to meet the 
eye of a Hemipterist, Dipterist, Hy- 
menopterist, or Orthopterist, will lie 
be good enough to awake to a concious- 
ness of the fact that the “Entomolo- 
gist ” is intended for communications 
about ALL THE ORDERS OF INSECTS, 
and will he make a beginning by 
sending us a list of his captures, and 
letting us know how the season of 
*1862 has favoured his own particular 
weakness. 
ERRATA. 
Page 37. Column 1. Line 10, — for 
“female,” read “ male,”® 
Page 41, Column 1. Line 16, — for 
“else than the Editors,” read “less 
than the Editors.” 
Page 47. The communication head- 
ed “II. Ilispida in duplicate is from 
A. Pretor, Dcljicld, near Weymouth, 
Dorset. 
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