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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
My married sister and I are lying 
perdu(e)s in a furze bush, not daring to 
stir from our hiding places ; we hear 
them all round us, we see their lamps 
and nets, and /eel their sticks beating; 
hut we are safe here, for they dare not 
put their hands into a furze bush : we 
hear them talk too about being attracted 
to light. 
Yes, indeed, and if I could only lay a 
few eggs first, I thiuk, now that poor 
Aleucis is gone, I would try that last 
chance, in the hope of being again 
reunited to him in Brown’s cabinet, 
never to be parted. But, there again, if 
I could only meet Brown ; but a col- 
lector — faugh ! — to be chloroformed and 
sold, — sickening work! 
It is impossible to tell a collector from 
a gentleman at night, until they speak. 
I know Brow'n by his voice. I don’t 
mind Brown, Jones and Robinson, — 
they are gentlemen. My mother saw 
them last year, when they came dow'n 
and took away so many of my uncles 
and aunts, and she said they were 
gentlemen. They let us poor females 
lay our eggs, which is all we want to do, 
which is our duty, and don’t come down 
every night to exterminate us. They 
have been down too again this year, so 
I hear, but I have not seen them. My 
cousin Eubolia (Brown took her) wrote 
me word from Blaokheath that he kept 
her very comfortable for a week, and that 
she laid her eggs nicely: now that’s the 
way to treat us females. If I could see 
Brown’s lantern on the Heath I’d fly to 
it to be treated so. But seriously, sir, if 
we are not to be allowed a night’s rest to 
deposit our eggs our race will become 
extinct. 
I am, dear sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
Aleucis Pictaiua. 
Now ready, price 3d., No. XVI. of 
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London : Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. 
Now ready, price 3s. 6d., 
THE WORLD OF INSECTS; 
A GUIDE TO ITS WONDERS. 
By J. W. Douglas, 
Secretary to the Entomological Society of London. 
London: John Van Voorst, Pater- 
noster Row. 
C ATALOGUE of EUROPEAN 
COLEOPTERA. — I have received 
a few more copies of the Stettin Cata- 
logue, which 1 shall be glad to forward 
to any applicant on the receipt of seven 
postage stamps. — H. T. Stainton, 
Moualsfield, Lewisham. 
S YNONYMIC LIST of BRITISH 
LEPIDOPTERA, to the end 
of the NOCTURE, for interchange 
amongst Collectors. Price Is. 3d. per 
dpzeu, or 4s. Gd. for 50 (post free). 
I have a number of these now on hand, 
which I shall be glad to forward on ap- 
plication. — H. T. Stainton. 
C l LOTH COVERS for binding the 
J Third Volume of the ‘ Intelli- 
genceu,’ price Is., or by post Is. 2d., can 
be had of E. Newman, 9, Devonshire 
Street, Bishopsgate, N.E. 
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Printer, of No. 0, Devonshire Street. Hisliops- 
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dlesex.— Saturday, May 1, 1S5S. 
Hartford Heath, 
April 27. 
