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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Coleophora conspicuella (Lep.). — On 
the 2nd inst. I took a specimen of this 
insect in the Hilly Field at Headley 
Lane. — H. Tompkins, 90, Guildford 
Street , Bussell Square, London; August 
12, 1856. 
Tinea caprimulgella (Lep.). — I met 
with a fine example of this species on an 
oak tree in Hyde Park at the latter end 
of July. — Ibid. 
English and Latin natnes. — Several 
papers have appeared in the ‘ Intelli- 
gencer’ respecting English and Latin 
names : you appear to recommend the 
latter, but you do not lay down any plan 
for teaching them to those who are un- 
acquainted with the Latin language. 
You would think it ridiculous in a 
school-master to attempt to teach a pupil 
a foreign language by laying before him 
about two thousand words and not giving 
him their meaning in his own language: 
yet so it is with your Latin names. I 
happen to be acquainted with about 
twenty entomologists in my immediate 
neighbourhood and only one out of the 
number knows any thing of Latin 
names ; therefore they can neither re- 
ceive nor give information on the sub- 
ject, and wherever such a state of things 
as this exists I know there is some de- 
fect in the teaching of the science. I 
believe the Latin names are given to 
insects from some peculiarity in their 
structure or habits: if the meaning of 
the names were understood it would at 
once point out that peculiarity, and 
thereby enable the entomologist to give 
names to insect', also to retain those 
names in memory. I have no doubt 
that we are taking insects commonly 
here that are rare in some places, and 
we could easily supply those places did 
we understand entomological language. 
I hope you will in some way or otbef try 
to remove the obstacle that lies in the 
way of the unclassical entomologist. — W. 
C. Buckley, Honley ; July 14, 1856. 
Recently hatched Lepidoptera. — With 
all due deference for the opinion of a 
man of Mr. Norcomhe’s experience, T 
must yet object that his reason for Lepi- 
doptera hanging their wings downwards 
is not quite satisfactory. I cannot claim 
the same knowledge of the subject as 
the writer, but I have bred some moths, 
and I have observed that they will not 
only hang their wings downwards if 
placed horizontally, but throw them out- 
wards if sitting perpendicularly; in short 
whatever their position may be they 
throw their wings away from their bodies, 
a fact which is not quite reconcileable 
with Mr. Norcombe’s theory. Now allow 
me to offer what appears to me to be the 
common sense view of the matter: — In- 
sects when they emerge from the chrysa- 
lis are always in a soft, helpless condi- 
tion : may they not instinctively throw 
their wings from their damp bodies into 
a position in which they will more effec- 
tually catch the air and dry and harden 
the quicker? — C. D. Savage, 5, Havil 
Street, Camberwell ; July 15, 1856. 
Botany for Incipients . — The endless 
variety of trees and flowers now adorning 
every hedge and field renders some 
knowledge of botany indispensable to 
the practical entomologist. It is indeed 
true that Entomology and Botany are sis* 
ter sciences, and in the case of the ento- 
mologist the study of the latter must 
follow closely upon that of the former. 
“This is no news” is probably the re- 
mark of some of the readers of the ‘ In- 
telligencer: ’ true, but I wish to recom- 
mend to those who are in want of such a 
work a book which I have found of great 
service in determining the name and 
properties of a plant without the usual 
alarming impediments in the shape of 
hard words and phrases. The title is 
‘Flowers of the Field;’ by the Rev. C. 
A. Johns. It is published at a moderate 
price by the Society for Promoting 
Christian Knowledge. This little book 
was recommended to me by a highly 
esteemed friend, and I am anxious that 
