THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 33.] SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1857. [Pkice \d. 
Holly Leaf mined by a Dipterous Larva, Phytomyza Aquifolii. (See p. 50.) 
THE EASTERN COUNTIES. 
The East Anglians appear to have less 
tendency to Entomology than any other 
inhabitants of our island, only excepting 
those descendants of the ancient Britons, 
the Welsh. 
We do not propose, at present, to dis- 
cuss the cause of the languid state of 
Entomology in the Principality ; but why 
are those line insect-producing counties, 
Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, 
so poorly peopled with Entomologists. 
Suffolk, it is true, has of late been bene- 
fited by the recent settling there of the 
renowned pupa-digger, Mr. Greene, and 
the amusing writer, Mr. Crewe. Pro- 
fessor Henslow, loo, is at work, near 
Ipswich, developing Entomological ten- 
dencies (as he has already developed Bo- 
tanical tendencies) in his school-children, 
and a neighbouring clergyman, who 
bears the venerated name of Kirby, has 
commenced a career of emulation with 
Mr. Henslow in this Naturalist-growing 
race. All this promises fruit at some 
future day, but we may have long to 
wait. In the meanwhile agriculture is 
advancing, hedge-timber is being cut 
down, and hedges are being stubbed up ; 
marshes (renowned in the time of Ha- 
worth for the good things they produced 
when explored), now never visited by the 
tread of the Entomologist, will surely 
soon be drained, and their present races 
of occupants will then vanish before the 
advancing tide of civilization, as certain 
as snipes, which the poet Rogers once 
used to shoot where Conduit Street now 
stands, are no longer to be seen on that 
spot. 
There are many of these Norfolk 
marsh-insects which it would be interest- 
ing to meet with and study, — not merely 
to find a new habitat for a rare species, 
— catch every specimen we possibly 
can (impaling them perhaps six on a 
pin), thus destroying the brood, but 
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