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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIG ENCER. 
resulting from such practices did not stop 
at ant annihilation, it also deprived us of 
the rare beetles which inhabited their 
nests. How few have had the good for- 
tune to see a specimen of Hetcerius sesqui- 
cornis or of Dinarda Maerkelii ! Speci- 
mens of both species still exist in the 
Museum collection, and are supposed to 
have been placed there by the author of 
the paper referred to in ‘ The Entomolo- 
gist’s Annual.’ 
Now that every house contains a Mu- 
seum of Natural History, and by far the 
greater number a collection of insects, it 
is greatly to be regretted that so few of 
the species of British ants are to be found 
in them, which are described by Smith in 
his ‘ Monograph ’ on the genus, which was 
published by the Trustees of the British 
Museum in 1858, a rare work and one of 
great interest at the present time. 
Of the Formica fusca, which you in- 
quire about, I have six examples, one 
mutilated: these specimens were pur- 
chased by my father at the sale of the 
Holloway Museum Collection of Natural 
History. The F. fusca is the ant which, 
in the rare work first alluded to, is stated 
to delight in forming its nest in “ loamy 
hedge-banks having a western aspect:” 
in such situations I have often searched 
for it, but vainly. 
It has occurred to me that possibly 
I might find wood ants in some of 
the Royal Parks, if I could obtain per- 
mission to search there; but such is the 
universal dread of entomologists in the 
present day, in consequence of their mer- 
ciless depredations, that I fear I have 
little chance of success. I heard the other 
day of a collector who was detected in a 
young fir plantation, where he had done 
immense damage by thrashing the young 
trees, for which offence he was committed 
for two months with hard labour and 
oakum picking. 
You shall hear from me again soon, till 
when, believe me, Yours faithfully, 
Stevenson Powerson. 
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Entomological Society of London. 
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