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teach it one of the truths of this 
universe — the property of fire to burn. 
The first time the child cuts its hand 
with a sharp knife it has gained a 
lesson which it will never forget. 
Now, in the case of pain, this ex- 
perience is seldom, if ever, in vain. 
There is little chance of a child for- 
getting that fire will burn, and that 
sharp steel will cut.” And we fear 
the necessity of experience renders 
other painful sensations imperative be- 
sides burns and cuts. 
There is, however, one view of the 
subject to which we can very properly 
call attention ; when an important 
capture or curious fact has been an- 
nounced in our columns, if tbe in- 
cipient afterwards discovers the mistake 
he is bound by all rules of honesty 
and fair dealing to make free and 
ample confession. As long as he, 
knowing that he has made a mistake, 
conceals it, he is acting a lie, and we 
do not envy him, in such case, the 
reproaches of his own conscience. 
Mr. Stainton will be “at home on 
Wednesday next, the 31st inst., at 6 p.m., 
as usual ; but will not be at home on the 
following Wednesday. Mr. Stainton 
will be at Aberdeen during the Meeting 
of the British Association. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
F. H., Regensburg.— VII. received ; 
thanks. The grey-green larva is cer- 
tainly Tceniatella ; the markings will be 
more distinct when older. Tbe yellow 
laTva is quite new to me, but must, I 
think, be an Elachisla. I think you are 
wrong in tbe name of tbe grass mined 
by Tceniatella ; it seems to me Hrachy- 
podium sylvaticum ; of that mined by the 
yellow larva I cannot express an opinion, 
as I am unacquainted with Hierochloa 
australis. 
C. S. G.— Tinea Dubiella next week. 
To Foreign Correspondents. — Mr. 
Stainton will be from home from the 
2nd to the 24th of September, so that it 
would be desirable that no larvm should 
arrive for him during that period. 
CAPTURES. 
The Entomologist’s Weekly Intel- 
ligencer may be obtained 
Wholesale of E. Newman, 9, Devon- 
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W. Kent Ac Co., 51 Ac 52, Pater- 
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All communications to be addressed to 
Mr. II. T. Stainton, Mounlsjield , 
Lewisham, near London, S.E. No notice 
will be. taken of anonymous communica- 
tions. 
Lepidoptera. 
Colias Edusa. —This insect was not so 
common here last year, but this year any 
one who had time might catch hundreds. 
On Saturday afternoon I captured eleven 
in about twenty minutes; one of them 
was nearly white, but the other markings 
were the same excepting tbe black edge of 
tbe fore wing, which was spotted with 
white. I had no time to spare just then, 
so I was obliged to leave tbe field con- 
tented. It was a field covered with 
