THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 155.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1859 [Price Id. 
NOVELTIES. 
It is particularly at this season of the 
year that our readers should look out 
for novelties. We are aware that Con- 
volvuli , Lathonia and Antiopa are now 
being sought more diligently than 
usual; but we wish to impress upon 
our readers that insects will be met 
with that are not expected , just as 
C'atephia Alchymista flashed upon Dr. 
Wallace’s sight in the autumn of last 
year. The concurrence of three such 
excessively hot summers in direct suc- 
cession must be expected to produce a 
considerable development of more south- 
ern forms, and we have lately beard 
that a South of Europe butterfly, Poly- 
ommalus Bcetica, has reappeared in the 
island of Guernsey, after an absence 
of twenty years. Had it occurred in 
Cornwall what a sensation would have 
been created ! 
Novelties are frequently neglected 
when they occur, because they fall 
into the hands of juveniles and in- 
cipients, who do not know their value 
till they discover — after having been 
cajoled out of a specimen or two by 
some older and more knowing hands— 
that the queer-looking Noctua, which 
they were unable to make out, is new 
to the country ! 
Leucania putrescens has been turned 
up, but still we have no tidings of 
L. L-album. It would not be difficult 
to compile a list of the species likely 
to occur here; but yet it has so fre- 
quently happened that the species 
which turn up are not met with on 
the opposite shores of the Channel 
that we fear such a list would not be 
of the service, in enabling a tyro to 
name a novelty, which, at the first 
glance, one might have expected. 
Many of the new species of late years 
have been insects like Pleropliorus 
Loewii, which we should never have 
anticipated would occur here. 
The precise geographical range of 
species is a subject requiring such a 
series of observations in so many 
localities, that, excepting in the most 
conspicuous families of insects, we 
cannot expect that it will make very 
much progress in the present century. 
Were entomologists as numerous in 
France and in Germany as they are 
here we should not despair of some- 
thing serviceable being accomplished 
even in the course of the next twenty 
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