THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 138.] 
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1859 [Price Id. 
Cloantha Perspicillaris. (See p. 59.) 
CAPTURES. 
We suppose entomologists must have 
been busy electioneering of late, or at 
tbis advanced period of tbe year our 
columns ought to be more fully sup- 
plied with notices of Captures. We 
have made every allowance for tbe 
East wind, cold nights, &c., but still 
we think, if due diligence had been 
used, there should have been more 
captures recorded. We do not imagine 
that there can be any mistake on this 
point, but we make no charge for in- 
serting notices of Captures, or Obser- 
vations, nor even for gratuitous offers 
of duplicate specimens. 
May is now well advanced, and 
though we know it is often up-hill 
work looking for insects of note, in 
that month, during the prevalence of 
easterly winds, imbued with all the 
icy bitterness of Siberia, still we think, 
if the entomologists of this country 
were one-tentli as industrious as the 
much-persecuted ants, we should hear 
of more captures. Entomologists are 
by no means decreasing ; scarcely a 
day passes without our hearing from 
some entomologist of whose existence 
we were previously unaware, and in 
the first half of May no less than 
eight additions have been made 
to our list of British entomologists. 
The rising generation thus promises 
a goodly crop, and we trust their 
seniors are not prematurely worn out 
and become effete, owing to the ex- 
cessive abundance of insects during 
the two preceding seasons. 
We do not like to make such per- 
sonal appeals as the present, but we 
feel just now that a few series of 
“ Doings in May,” giving the real 
experience of some dozen or two of 
our readers, would be most accept- 
able to the remaining two thousand. 
Nothing incites the young mind so 
keenly to the pursuit of game as 
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