THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 47.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1857. [Price Id. 
YOUNG BARNES. 
We pass over a year or two in the life 
of this eminent individual, who was now 
a regular reader of the ‘Zoologist,’ and 
generally contrived to get it duly read 
and digested on the closing day of the 
old month, and it not unfrequently 
occurred that country entomologists, who 
had sent a notice of some capture to 
that publication, first received assurance 
that “ they were in print” by the arrival, 
on the first of the month, of a letter in a 
strange band-writing ; in short, such a 
letter as the following: — 
15, Great St. Helen's, 
Bishopsgate Street, London, 
July 31, 1855. 
Dear Sir, 
I trust you will allow me to 
address you in this familiar way, as I 
feel that no entomologist can he a 
stranger to me. 
I observe in the new number of the 
1 Zoologist’ that you mention the capture 
of Cucullia Gnaphalii ; it is an insect 
which is by no means common, and I 
should be very glad if you could spare 
me a specimen. I will freely give you 
anything that you may want from my 
stores, and should only be too happy to 
assist you, even unconditionally, if you 
would allow me to take that liberty. Un- 
fortunately I have no empty box at home, 
or I would have sent you at once Lo- 
phopteryx cucullina , Peridea trepida and 
Agrotis saucia, on the mere chance of 
your having a spare Gnaphalii. 
By the way, have you ever looked 
for the larva of this latter insect? It 
should be far more easy to find in the 
larva state, on the golden rod, than in 
the perfect state, hovering at the flowers 
of the Rhododendron. 
Believe me, dear Sir, 
Yours very truly, 
A. Barnes. 
F. Allgreen, Esq., 
Jemima Cottage, 
Winchfiekl, Hants. 
PS. Could you se#d me a marked 
list of your collection ? 
One can easily imagine the effect 
which such an epistle from an entire 
stranger produced on Frederick All- 
green. It is true he had only taken 
one of that rare Shark, Cucullia Gna- 
phalii, but as he had no doubt that 
where he had found one he should find 
more, and as the insects young Barnes 
had mentioned quite made his mouth 
water, he at once packed up his Gna- 
phalii, and committed it to the tender 
mercies of the post, and, expressing a 
wish to receive the insects mentioned, 
he duly enclosed a marked list of his 
collection. 
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