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which fat cattle alone, and their intelli- 
gent attendants, are allowed to enter) is 
worse than the infernal regions to any 
entomological aspirant, whose ambition 
leads him to yearn after nobler things 
than Sleropus madidus, Anobium striatum , 
Melolontha vulgaris and Sitona lineata. 
Now the greater part of Northampton- 
shire, Warwick, Leicester, Rutland, Staf- 
ford and Bedford is precisely what we 
have just described ; so much so, indeed, 
that the collector who has been educated 
under better auspices, within the metro- 
politan circle, becomes almost hypochon- 
driacal during his first visit, however 
brief, to his dear midland relatives, and 
sighs, day by day, to return home again. 
This is the true key to the unscientific, 
unobservant, semi -barbarous, unentomo- 
logical state of the midlanders; and Dr. 
Arnold, whose hatred of llugby and all 
around it was so intense that he pro- 
nounced it to be absolutely wanting in 
every kind of feature beyond that of 
a cold agricultural monotony, perfectly 
hideous to behold, has, with marked 
acumen, however undesignedly, confirmed 
our views. 
Let the above-mentioned counties, 
therefore, be strictly avoided — by all at 
least who wish to make the most of the 
short leisure which they may chance to 
possess. To send such people as these to 
Blisworth, Weedon or Rugby would be 
tantamount to consigning them to the 
shades below; and, if they will proceed 
by the London and Birmingham Rail- 
way (that most melancholy of lines), let 
us, at all events, persuade them to obtain 
tickets available for a much greater dis- 
tance from the metropolis, in the hope 
they may reach at last some wilder and 
little explored paradise of the far West, — 
some area bcata of blessed existence, 
looming against the evening sky, — where 
apoplectic cattle and the love of gain 
have not so marred the face of Nature 
that her original visage can be no longer 
recalled. 
To those, therefore, who will consent 
to turn their backs upon the stiff midland 
clay, and will bravely pursue their course 
towards the sun-set, we have much to re- 
commend; but space will not permit us 
to do so now. To wise men (like those 
rarce aves, however, alas! in terrd) we 
will offer a few' brief remarks in our next 
number on the advantages of the border 
country abutting upon Wales, — a region 
hitherto but imperfectly searched, and 
yet almost rivalling the favoured East in 
the glories of its Coleopterous Fauna. 
One piece of advice, only, let us insist 
upon now, namely, that wherever the 
Fates may lead them (we mean the phi- 
losophers above alluded to), they be pre- 
pared, in the strictest sense of the word, 
for work : “ England expects every mail 
to do his duty 1 ” 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
LinNjEA Entomologica. Vol. XI. 
1857. Beilin: E. S. Mitller 
und Sohn. Price 6s. 
[Second Notice.] 
We promised in our last number to 
revert to this book, with more especial 
reference to the treatise it contains by 
Professor Frey on the genus Nepticula. 
We were much pleased to find last year 
that the search for these insects was 
being carried on with increased vigour, 
both here and on the Continent. Pro- 
bably the publication of the first volume 
of the ‘Natural History of the Tineina ’ 
had some slight influence in inciting col- 
lectors to energy in this branch of their 
study. Certainly this essay of Frey’s 
will help to keep up the furore which 
had arisen. 
Fifty-eight species of the genus are 
enumerated. Among these are the follow- 
ing, which are new since the publication 
