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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
if expressed without any abbreviations, 
read as follows: — 
“ This species occurs at Birkenhead ; 
it is common at Brighton, Bristol, Bur- 
ton-on-Trent, Cambridge and Darling- 
ton ; at Huddersfield it is abundant ; it 
is common at Kingsbury, in Middlesex, 
also in the Lake District of Cumberland 
and Westmoreland, at Lewes, Lynd- 
liurst, and Manchester; it is abundant 
at Scarborough; it occurs at Stowmarket, 
in Suffolk; is common at Tenterden, in 
Keut, and is found at Waveudon, near 
Newport Pagnel ; it is common at 
Worthing and York.” 
Yet all this information was given 
in two lines ! and many of the descrip- 
Plantayinis would always attract atten- 
tion by their gay appearance.” 
“ Many of the species fly in the hot 
sunshine, though a few (as the Ermines) 
are more partial to the shades of even- 
ing.” 
“ The larvae of a few of the species 
pass into the pupa state before the ap- 
proach of winter; but more generally 
the larvae hybernate and feed up in the 
spring; and the early sunny days in 
April we may see the Tiger Caterpillars 
briskly engaged discussing some dock 
or nettle on a weedy bank. Later in the 
season we find these large brown cater- 
pillars wandering in all directions ; and, 
probably, there are few children above 
Cream-spot Tiger (Arctia villica). 
tions have been compressed almost to 
a similar degree. 
As a sample of the readable portions 
of the work, we give the following on the 
Chelonidcc, one of the families of the 
Bombyces, pp. 142, 143. 
“ This family contains the most splen- 
did and gaudily coloured of our British 
Moths. The unlearned always take 
them for Butterflies, as though it were 
an axiom that beauties must be butter- 
flies, and that moths were always miser- 
able-looking ; entomologists know of no 
such distinction.’’ 
“The palm of beauty must, we think, 
be accorded to the Cream-spot Tiger 
( Arclia villica ); but the Scarlet Tiger 
(llypcrcnmpa dominula) is hardly less 
splendid ; and A. caja and Ncmeophila 
eight years of age, who are not well 
acquainted with the larva of A. caja , 
however little they may know of the 
insect it produces.” 
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