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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
tioned reminded its readers of our exist- 
ence. It is true it did not continually 
speak of the ‘ Intelligencer,’ but the very 
title reminded every one of his absent 
summer friend. It was ‘ The Substitute.’ 
For what was it the Substitute ? For 
‘The Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligen- 
cer.’ We are satisfied that as long as 
‘ The Substitute ’• was making its weekly 
appearance, the ‘ Intelligencer’ could not 
be forgotten. And we felt, and still feel, 
that there is no call for the continuance 
of the ‘Intelligencer’ during the winter 
months. 
We are well aware that a great many 
of our readers never troubled themselves 
about ‘ The Substitute,’ and that conse- 
quently many who read these lines are 
unaware of the contents of that “ winter 
journal of Entomology.” 
In the first place, each number of 
‘The Substitute’ contained a leading 
article, not one of which emanated from 
our pen, or from our brain. We are well 
aware that many hugged the delusion 
we were ourselves doing all the work, hut 
it was not so. As we had announced the 
previous summer we wanted rest — we 
wanted time. Had we been writing 
articles all the winter we felt that we 
should not have done our duty to the 
subscribers to various of our other publi- 
cations. 
The Leading Articles in ‘The Sub- 
stitute’ are as follows. — 1. The Substi- 
tute. 2. Change of Names. 3. British 
Insects. 4. Foreign Insects. 5. Theory. 
6. The Cabinet Question. 7. Winter 
Work. 8. Popular Entomology. 9. 
Structure and Habit. 10. Scientific 
Entomology. 11 <Sc 12. The Neglected 
Orders. 13. Mere Collectors. 14. Local 
Associations. 15. Insect Dealers. 16. 
Microscopic Entomology. 17. The Mur- 
der of the Innocents. 18. Silent Love. 
19. The Entente Cordiale. 20. Finis. 
The Lists of Duplicates and Deside- 
rata have, of course, only an evanescent 
interest, the former being soon exhausted, 
and many of the latter speedily supplied. 
The “Notices of Summer Rambles” 
forms perhaps the most interesting fea- 
ture of ‘ The Substitute,’ and it is difficult 
to read some of these without feeling a 
sort of mouth-watering sensation. The 
Editor has remarked in his last leader, 
“ These pages are of very unequal value, 
as might have been expected. Some 
have been sneered at for having little 
in them, but the critics forgot that every 
one does not know so much as themselves, 
and that there is a race of learners to 
whom the experience of other learners is 
valuable, especially when those who are 
their seniors, and might teach them more 
and better, disdained to instruct them 
through the medium of our pages. It 
will, however, be consolatory to some of 
our young contributors to know that 
their communications (void though they 
may be of novelty) on account of the 
freshness and thorough heartiness exhi- 
bited, have received the commendation 
of entomologists whose position, ability 
and power of appreciation are unques- 
tioned.” Of the papers of this class may 
be mentioned ‘A Beginner’s List of But- 
terflies,’ by Limacodes Testudo : ‘An 
Entomological Ramble in the Isle of 
Wight,’ by Roland Trimen : ‘ Lepidop- 
tera at Looe,’ by Rev. E. Horton: 
‘ Notes by an Old Collector,’ by R. 
Cartmel: ‘ Lepidoptera in the New 
Forest,’ by A. C. Oakley: ‘Two Days 
Hunting of Butterflies and Moths in 
Suffolk,’ by D. T. B. : &c., &c. 
Guenee’s work on the Noctuae being 
inaccessible to many of our readers, they 
will be glad to hear that a series of 
extracts, relating to most of the genera 
which occur in Guenee’s first volume, 
have been translated in ‘ The Substitute.’ 
We have often thought that an English 
version of Guenee’s book would be 
amazingly useful, but at present there is 
such a demand for cheap books that a 
fat octavo, at a proportionate price, 
would stand no chance. 
Some curious attempts at combining 
scientific instruction and amusing poetry 
have tended to enliven the pages of some 
of the numbers of ‘The Substitute,’ but 
not having a poetic vein of our own we 
cannot judge of their execution. 
Printed and published by Ktnv,utn Newman, 
Printer, of No. !•, Devonshire Street, liishops- 
galo Without, London, in the county of Mid- 
dlesex. — Saturday, May 2d, 1N57. 
