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THE ENTOMOLOGISTS WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
probably the larva was unknown to 
science. Now if some one, up to the 
present state of knowledge in any depart- 
0 
ment, were to be willing to receive in- 
sects or larvae, answer enquiries and re- 
turn boxes, and would publicly say so, 
giving at the same time the necessary 
information as to what be wanted as 
descriptions of insects and larvae (for it is 
not every one who is acquainted with all 
the “pteras” in the entomologist’s vo- 
cabulary), I feel convinced that be might, 
while sitting at home, do more in the 
cause of science than if he were to spend 
his whole time in collecting. For myself 
it was a real pleasure to find some time 
since a person who understood the 
Ichneumons, valued what I was able to 
send him, and could tell me something 
about them ; and I now pin and label 
many an insect which would otherwise 
have been ignominiously slaughtered ; 
and I should be glad to send to any Dip- 
terist the larvae which I constantly meet 
with while collecting Micro-Lepidoptera. 
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All communications to be addressed to 
Mb. H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, 
Lewisham, near London, in time to 
reach him by Wednesday in each week 
at the latest. No notice wilt be 
taken of anonymous communications. 
Mr. Stainton will not be at home 
on Wednesday, July 30th. 
Mr. Stainton will proceed on that 
evening on a collecting expedition up 
Burnt Ash Lane : he will be at the 
linger-post where the lane forks at 6.30 
p. m. Entomologists from London who 
may wish to join him there should leave 
by the 5.30 train for Blackheath, pro- 
ceed thence to the Tiger’s Head, oppo- 
site to which runs the rural lane of 
Burnt Ash. Incipients who are too shy 
or too afraid of intruding to come to 
Mountsfield may perhaps pluck up cou- 
rage enough to meet one in a lane. 
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Several hi teres ting communications 
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over till next week. 
Back Numuers of the ‘Intelli- 
gencer.’ — The price of No. 1 is now 
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H. A. S., I'aversham. — The books 
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