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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
be-capped! Coleopterists ! will not this 
tempt you? — Chrysomela cerealis on the 
ascent, ginger-beer (and coffee) at the 
top. 
Chrysomela, did we say? Yes. Yet 
there is even more. Go, O Socrates, and 
recline, at an angle of 45°, on those 
grassy slopes; and, as you pull tip the 
wild thyme, from the roots of which 
cerealis will unquestionably roll out, in- 
vert also the stones, and then mark the 
result. Helohia nivalis swarms, and will 
run off faster than you can catch it ; 
S ter opus TEthiops and Carabus arvensis 
are at times scarcely less abundant; 
Omalium alpinum and a dark variety of 
Geodromus playiatus hide by hundreds, 
at certain seasons, beneath the fragments 
of slate at a high elevation ; and, if you 
are lucky (as you doubtless are), you 
may perhaps alight upon the rare Leislus 
montanus, — an insect which until lately 
(when a specimen was taken in the Swiss 
Alps by Dr. Schaum, of Berlin) was sup- 
posed to be peculiarly British. There 
are hosts of the smaller Brachelytra at 
this altitude, which you will not meet 
with at a lower level, so take every spe- 
cies that you see ; only be careful to put 
as many specimens of them as you can 
into separate pill-boxes or quills, for (like 
most of us when in a ratified air) they 
are very voracious, and will assuredly eat 
each other up. 
When you have secured these, and as 
many more as you are able, then ascend 
higher still : and, having written to one 
of your particular friends (with the pens 
and paper which are there provided for 
the purpose), and having explained care- 
fully to him (or her) how much nearer 
the moon you are than you ever were 
before,— then sit down, with a thankful 
heart for your day’s sport, and enjoy 
your “ pop,” and endeavour to realize the 
fact, which has been so immortalized by 
the American poet, that every man’s 
motto, especially in a mountain district, 
should be “ Excelsior .” 
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