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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
resident in a town can be instructed in 
the natural products of its tuore rural 
localities. Inland towns are more scan- 
tily supplied with variety of life. Birds, 
insects and flowers, and the ordinary 
stock of a local fauna and flora is ex- 
hausted; but with a town situated like 
Brighton, on the coast, the case is very 
different, and all the varied objects of the 
sea-shore come to swell the list of the 
natural productions of Brighton and its 
vicinity. 
Many would be disposed to think that 
in a gay watering-place like Brighton 
man himself (or rather woman) would be 
an object of interesting study, but no 
chapter is devoted in the volume before 
us to the “ Habits and Economy of Card- 
playing Dowagers,” nor do we find allu- 
sion to the tendency of , but we 
digress. 
The Sea-weeds, Zoophytes, Crustacea, 
Mollusca and Fishes occupy nearly the 
first half of the volume. Then we have 
the Botany of the South Downs and 
the coast plants. This is followed by 
a chapter on insects ; then come the Mol- 
lusca of the land and fresh-water, and, 
as a natural sequence to the latter, we 
Lave the fresh-water fishes. The birds 
and terrestrial Mammalia bring up the 
rear. 
In the Appendix are given some com- 
plete lists of the various groups of the 
Flora and Fauna. 
A map of the country round Brighton 
is prefixed to the volume, which thus 
becomes a very serviceable companion to 
the naturalist visiting Brighton. 
The lists of Brighton insects have 
been prepared by several of the first 
entomologists of the neighbourhood. Of 
the Macro-Lcpidoptera it may be ob- 
served that the vicinity of Brighton pro- 
duces fully two-thirds of the total number 
indigenous to Britain ; so that probably 
it is about the richest locality we have. 
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF LEPI- 
DOPTEKA. 
jTo the Editor of the ' Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — It is scarcely probable that an 
entomological acrobat, walking upon 
high stilts, may be profited by anything 
that a poor cripple, hobbling upon 
crutches, and even with these hardly 
able to pick his way in the insect world, 
can do, or say, or write. 
Nevertheless, I will endeavour to 
“shoulder my crutch,” if not for the 
benefit of “ Excelsior,” at least for that 
of the million, and if not exactly quali- 
fied to show “how fields are won,” I 
may possibly be able to demonstrate how 
much valuable time, which some assert 
to be “ money,” may be won by the aid 
of what I will venture to style an ento- 
mological “ Who’s Who,” which seems 
so much needed amongst beginners. 
Suppose, sir, some Tyro (myself, for 
instance) to have had some slight suc- 
cess at sugar, and to have eaptured, to 
our “ untutored mind,” an unknown 
Noctua, and to have extorted with some 
difficulty from brother Snarl, who had 
been unfortunately wasting his “sweet- 
ness on the desert air,” that the insect 
was Parva. What really useful informa- 
tion has Tyro gained thereby ? Of course 
he flics to Doubleday — to the ‘ Manual ’ 
— to Wood’s ‘Index’ — to the ‘Accen- 
tuated List’ — and to what not? but un- 
less he happens to be acquainted with 
the genus Micra, he consumes much 
more time than is necessary or con- 
venient in the search. Had thero been 
a good alphabetically arranged list of 
