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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY IN TELLIGENCER. 
not this have saved if it had been earlier 
known ! 
More Exposures. — I can confirm 
Mr. Harrison’s statement as to the 
greediness of some entomologists from 
my own experience. I received a letter 
in January last making me offers of 
assistance, then in a postscript asking for 
several insects, S. BombyliJ onnis, T. 
Cratceyi, &c. I wrote I hope and think 
a polite answer, regretting that I had 
none of the insects he asked for, but 
saying that at the end of the season I 
would send him a list of duplicates, and 
at the saute time mentioning some in- 
sects I should be glad of. 1 have never 
heard of this gentleman from that day to 
this.— E. A. H. 
Should the ‘Intelligencer’ be 
PUBLISHED THROUGH THE WINTER ? — 
You will perhaps consider me out of 
place in writing to you as the editor of 
the ‘Entomologist’s Intelligencer,’ sug- 
gesting, if you think proper, something 
for the consideration of your readers, 
viz., that they take all they can of any 
rare or local insect ; and if possible 
that the ‘Weekly Intelligencer’ be pub- 
lished during the winter months, instead 
of taking a long nap till roused by the 
bright days of a returning spring ; I think 
there never need be lack of matter for so 
interesting, and to the entomologist so 
useful, a publication. If it should be 
continued it will enable those who, like 
myself (you see man is a selfish brute), 
have but little time to spare for the pur- 
suit, and that little ought now to be 
spent in the field. When dreary winter 
comes and the net is laid aside, the spare 
time may be well employed in corres- 
ponding through the medium of your 
pages as to the result of the past season 
and as to what duplicates are on hand, 
the advantage of which 1 think will be 
reciprocal, and tend much to the im- 
provement of our cabinets. — C. E. 
Brydges, 4, Priory Terrace, Chelten- 
ham; June 16, 1856. 
[We shall be glad to receive further 
suggestions on this subject: our own im- 
pression is that the ‘ Intelligencer’ should 
hybernate for six months, and then start 
again in the spring with renewed 
vigour.] 
The End oe Terminella. 
A True Story. 
“Every thing has an end” says the 
proverb ; but the end of Terminella was 
a very sad one, therefore we relate it; 
but to begin at the beginning. 
CHAPTER I. 
Once upon a time Mr. Weir went into 
Sussex to visit his relations there : on 
his return he exhibited to his admiring 
entomological friends a lovely' little 
moth which reflected nearly all the 
colours of the rainbow; he had only 
taken a single specimen of it, and had 
fortunately set it out very nicely ; he 
thought a great deal of it, and proposed 
to call it Pairiciella. The insect was 
reputed new, and described by Mr. 
Stainton in his Catalogue, in 1849, as 
Elachista pairiciella. 
CHAPTER II. 
Some time after this Mr. Stainton 
visited Mr. Curtis. In Mr. Curtis’s col- 
lection he found a specimen of the same 
insect under the name of Terminella : 
this led him to examine Westwood’s 
description of that insect, and it being 
found to agree the insect adopted the 
older name, just as if Terminella had 
been its uncle, and left it an estate on 
condition of its doing so. • 
