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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
sorry to find it discontinued during the 
winter months, and beg to say that I will 
with much pleasure subscribe to it as a 
permanent monthly publication. Through 
tlie information contained in it I have 
been enabled to add to my collection, 
having met with the greatest attention 
and politeness from those with whom I 
have communicated. — North London. 
With regard to the winter circulation 
of the ‘ Intelligencer’ allow me to say, 
that as entomologists are not in pupae in 
the winter mouths, though their insects, 
many of them are, they require entomo- 
logical food at that season quite as much 
as at others, indeed more of the kind the 
‘Intelligencer’ supplies, as their more 
active summer occupation is over. 
Young entomologists especially are apt 
to cool towards the gentle pursuit during 
the “sad and winter time,” and without 
the ‘ Intelligencer’ would be likely to 
foreret their butterflies in the rougher 
sports of the field. Indeed it seems to 
me that the winter is the time for the 
‘ Intelligencer’ to get thoroughly read, 
whereas it now gets glanced over hastily 
and thrown aside, that the more import- 
ant expedition, or grand extension, may 
be proceeded with. Let your corres- 
pondents who now send you hurried 
scraps of information reserve for the lei- 
sure hours of winter longer and more 
graphic sketches of the golden days of 
midsummer, to entertain your readers 
round their firesides. I hope to do my 
share in an account of my expedition to 
Cornwall when I have more leisure ; but 
I have purposely omitted recording seve- 
ral good captures lately because I feel 
that I am not quite sure of the names of 
some without my books, which I have 
left at home. — A Voice from tiie Far 
West. 
Swiss Noctuje bred. — We are re- 
quested to state that Herr Widmer, the 
Curator of the Zoological Museum at 
Zurich, has bred specimens of the fol- 
lowing species for sale : — 
Phlogophora scita, 
Plusia moneta, 
,, concha, 
„ illustris, 
,, orichalcea. 
The first named at 2s. a pair; the re- 
maining four at Is. a pair. We shall be 
happy to receive and forward applica- 
tions for these insects. 
Lists of British Lepidoptera.— I 
have now plenty of lists for interchange 
among collectors of British Lepidoptera 
(excepting the Tineina). I shall be glad 
to send them, post free , for Is. a dozen. 
The arrangement is that followed by 
Mr. H. Doubleday. — Thomas Chap- 
man, 56, Buchanan Street, Glasgow; 
August 9, 1856. 
Wednesday Evening’s Ramble up 
Burnt-Ash Lane. — On this occasion we 
met two incipients ; the knowing ones 
being unrepresented. We believe those 
who came were well satisfied with their 
sport, and are willing to repeat the visit 
on the 27th inst. En route we passed 
two of the progeny of “ the veteran ” 
with “roguish eyes,” but they did not 
join us in Burnt-Ash Lane. On our re- 
turn we found some entomologist had 
called expecting to find us “ at home.” 
We take this opportunity of expressing 
our regret that we did not see him : he 
should read the ‘ Intelligencer.’ 
THE WAY TO MOUNTSFIELD. 
A GUIDE FOR STRANGERS. 
Would you seek the way to Mountsfield — 
Would you know it — would you find it, 
You must kindly learn these verses; 
If they’re rude, you must not mind it. 
