WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST 
“ ENTOMA aUIDQUTD AOTJNT NOSTItl EST FARRAGO LIBELLI.” 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1863. [Price 2d. 
OHS LIST. 
(P\ THK, Dumber for tliis week 
completes the first half-yearly 
volume of the Weekly Entomologist. 
Those who compare the Index which 
will accompany the number, with the 
Index of any volume of the Intelli- 
gencer will probably notice several 
striking differences between the two. 
But the most remarkable point of 
dissimilarity is to be found in the 
List of Contributors. It will be seen 
that less than half as many gentlemen 
have favoured our paper. As a neces- 
sary consequence those who have 
contributed to us have done so on a 
very extensive scale. One gentleman 
has favoured us with something like 
twenty different communications. 
Now in our opinion it is anything but 
fair that sixty disinterested individu- 
als should have to bear the whole 
burden of a work in which, by good 
rights every Entomologist in England 
should take his part. We must not 
however forget, that the Weekly 
Entomologist as it is, may be no cri- 
terion of the Weekly Entomologist as 
it will be. One of Erin’s Sons at a 
Public Meeting somewhere in Eng- 
land (we will not say where, but he, 
as a reader of our Paper will no doubt 
remember) in speaking in most flatter- 
ing terms of the “Entomologist,” 
stoutly protested against the first part 
of the name, and expressed a hope 
that the periodical in question might 
grow stronger and in time drop the 
“weakly" element altogether. As 
most of our readers know there are 
very good grounds for retaining the 
word “Weekly” provided we spell 
it right, in as much as “The Entom- 
ologist” is a thing of the past; but 
at the same time we quite agree with 
our Irish friend in hoping for a 
brighter future. The “ Weekly 
Entomologist” saw the light for the 
first time under unfavourable circum- 
stances. The ‘ Zoologist’ had probably 
had the benefit of all captures and 
discoveries of interest up to the 16th. 
of August; and after that time of 
course “Captures” at any rate, became 
much rarer occurrences. The second 
volumn of the Entomologist however 
may be considered as starting with 
“ a clear stage and no favour” in the 
words of Mr. Wardle. Very soon we 
will hope the mild zephyrs of spring 
time, will act on collectors as on insects 
calling some to arouse from their 
winter sleep, and bursting the pupa- 
