THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
167 
207, 304, 312, 322, 336, 351,370,376, 
384, 397, 402, 410, 413, 416, 418, 426, 
451, 479, 488, 495, 496, H. Pyraliaria , 
P. Casiaria, A. Citraria and F. Piniaria. 
I annex a list of my desiderata: — 127, 
144, 150, 151, 162, 221, 225, 238, 244 to 
250, 269, 273, 300 to 303, 339 to 34 1 , 349, 
356, 359, 365, 368, 377, 383, 398, 421, 
422, 433, 434, 437, 443, 449, 454 to 
459, 465, 466, 477, 482. — F. Buck- 
ton, 6, Beech Grove Terrace , Leeds ; 
August 13. 
MARVELLOUS CAPTURES. 
To the Editor of the ' Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — Lately the capture of Notodonta 
tritophus was recorded in the ‘ Intelli- 
gencer,’ but it is not stated how the spe- 
cies was identified, as in the case of so 
great a rarity it should have been, and 
consequently I find no one believes that 
the insect is really the species designated. 
Still later we are treated to the announce- 
ment of the capture of Pieris Daplidice 
“ by a juvenile,” and we are left in doubt 
whether there is not some such error as 
occurred on a former occasion, when an 
enthusiastic tyro told us he had caught 
Argynnis Lalhonia, which proved to be 
only a common species. And we all re- 
member the episode of Melitcea Dia, 
which has not to this day obtained 
credence. 
May I therefore suggest, that, in the 
event of the capture of any great rarities 
or novelties, the specimens should be ex- 
hibited at a meeting of the Entomological 
Society, or that at least they should be 
shown to some one who is competent to 
decide what the species is; otherwise the 
‘ Intelligencer’ will obtain an unenviable 
notoriety as the- means of disseminating 
reports that are not true, or if true are 
not corroborated, and consequently not 
believed. 
J. W. Douglas. 
Lee ; August 1 3. 
THE POST OFFICE. 
To the Editor of the ' Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — The cruel mortification of the 
incipient, as well as other entomologists, 
when they find their best hopes of a 
valuable addition to their cabinets frus- 
trated by the folly of others, is my best 
apology for troubling you with these ob- 
servations. These remarks are forced on 
me in consequence of the utter careless- 
ness and unfeeling recklessness — I should 
more properly say the fiendish wanton- 
ness — of the Post-Office officials. 
The annual sacrifice of species to that 
shrine of Moloch, the Post Office, must 
be fearful to contemplate, and I am afraid 
that unless some means are adopted to 
check the evil, we shall be debarred from 
sending the species that occur in different 
counties one to another, and the inter- 
change of specimens must cease. Is there 
no redress for this destruction P I am 
asked. I refer the question to your 
better judgment, and ask, “Is there no 
redress ? 
I have, during the past three months, 
forwarded a great number of boxes to dif- 
ferent parts of the country, and fully one- 
fourth of that number arrived crushed. 
I have now by me nine boxes that I have 
received crushed, three of which deserve 
their fate, being only card-board ; the 
others are what any one would call pretty 
fair, and, with ordinary care, would have 
come safe. I forwarded a box under 
four ounces to Ulverstone last week, made 
in the strongest manner possible, well- 
padded, bound over with black, and 
labelled; it would bear any amount of 
pressure, and any one would have thought 
it impossible to break it ; but lo ! it 
