THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE R. 
No. 104.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1858. [Price Id. 
THANKS. 
It is our pleasing duty on the present 
occasion to return our sincere thanks 
to the numerous correspondents who 
have, from time to time, enriched our 
pages with their communications. A 
cursory glance at the present volume 
of the ‘Intelligencer’ will show that 
it is far fuller of communications than 
any previous volume, though we fear 
the increase in the number of com- 
munications is entirely confined to the 
order Lepidoptera. The collectors of 
Coleoptera must certainly be either 
less observant or less communicative 
than the votaries of “ the Scale- 
wings.” 
Several important and interesting 
communications which w r e have lately 
received are now compelled to stand 
over to the next volume, and one 
or two accounts of summer rambles, 
received some time back, have been 
waiting quietly in our reserve-drawer 
till the close of the season should 
allow of our conveniently finding space 
for their insertion in our columns. 
The rapidity with which the leaves 
are now changing colour, we fear, 
betokens a premature arrival of autumn, 
and when ivy and autumnal sugarings 
are things of the past the captures 
of the season will be nearly over. 
The subject of Entomological Ex- 
aminations will soon agaiu be pressing 
for attention : it is evident from the 
eagerness with which the idea was 
received by many, that something may 
be advantageously accomplished by 
the scheme, and though of course 
during the height of the season 
neither young nor old were disposed 
to remain in-doors cramming for the 
entomological little-go when Edusa. 
was wooing them to a pleasant three- 
mile chase up and down the meadow 
by the brook, yet now, when the 
Edusas and the Antiopas of 1858 are 
likely soon to be as much matter of 
history as the Comet, it is time to 
be again thinking seriously, how the 
Examination scheme is to be carried on. 
We shall be very glad to hear from 
any of our readers who deem that 
among their captures this season are 
any novelties which ought to find a 
place in the next 4 Entomologist’s An- 
nual.’ 
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