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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
builder, the agriculturist go to work 
at the root of the matter at once, and 
attempt to do away with the existence 
of insects. Indeed we have great 
ground for thankfulness to the nobility 
for preserving insects, not from the 
devastating and unsparing inroads of 
the tiller and drainer only, but even 
from the too eager and inconsiderate 
grasp of many selfstyled Entomologists 
whose trophies are to be found not in 
cabinets and storeboxes, but hung 
round their kitchens and sittingrooms : 
grotesque and fanciful designs in glass 
cases : here a hundred Vanessa Ios in 
a circle with half a dozen “ gold- 
splashes ” (Plusia festuccc) in the 
centre : in one corner a Sphinx con- 
volvuli with a crowd of satellites in 
the form of Polyommatus Alexis , in 
another a motherly-looking M. Maura 
offering the shadow of her wings to a 
brood composed of some score of A. 
filipendulcc and lonicerce: a kind of 
classification more picturesque than 
scientific. 
But to return to our point. The 
upshot of what we are Baying is, that 
those who are enemies to Entomology 
are to be found wherever wo look, or 
as Mr. Stainton so pithily expresses 
it they are “abundant everywhere.” 
It has been a trite maxim that tho 
more persecutors a cause meets with, 
the more votaries it will meet with 
also. 
Never should Entomologists, muster 
more strongly than in the year 18G2. 
Let us banish all petty jealousies 
and personal illwill and join hand in 
hand against our common foes. The 
fight is no harder than many a one 
which men engage in for the most 
trivial objects: but the guerdon is the 
thanks of our enlightened brethren 
and a name among the heroes of 
science. 
All communications to he addressed 
to Mr. T. Blackburn, Bowdon , 
Cheshire. No notice will he taken of 
anonymous communications. 
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FAMPHILA ACTGSON. 
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S: 
Very little is yet known about the 
motamorphosis of this interesting 
species. Besides a short notice given 
by myself in tho Isis 1840 p. 137 
and another from Herr von Pritwitz j 
in tho Entomologische Zeitung 1862 p. 
150, l am not aware that anything! 
lias been published on tho larva state. f 
