THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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besides many commoner things. I will 
exchange the above, so far as they will 
go, for any of the following, in fine con- 
dition : — 
T. FonniccEfonnis, A. Auricoma, 
Cnliciformis, Enphorhiae, 
Ichneumoniformis, L. Fiirva, 
E. Cribrum, O. Neglecta, 
L. Aureola, T. Retusa, 
Z. Arundinis, X. Gilvago, 
S. Fagi (especially J), Croceago, 
N. Carmelita, C. Absinthii, 
Diclseoides, A. Melanopa. 
A. Alni. 
Applicants will.be so good as to write 
before they send any boxes. — Rev. 
Herbert Bree, Woolverstone, Ipsivich; 
September 30. 
Butterfiies ivanted. — In consequence 
of having very lately begun to take in 
the ‘ Intelligencer,’ we have not yet been 
successful enough to secure C. Edusa, 
C. Cardui or any other of the local but- 
terflies, w'hich we understand have been 
unusually plentiful this year in the 
South. Any gentleman, therefore, who 
may have duplicates to dispose of will 
greatly oblige us by forwarding a few, in 
return for which w'e shall be happy to 
give any of the following, if he is not 
already possessed of them : — 
S. Pavonia, L. Quercus, 
A. Villica, A. Ulmata. 
— J. Hollenbake, care of T. Mellor, 
Skircoat Green, near Halifax ; Oct. 8. 
Stock exhausted. — Owing to a great 
number of applicants, my stock of Hepi- 
alus Velleda is completely worked out. 
1 have still a number of Polia Chi on 
hand, which I shall be happy to send to 
any gentleman in exchange for any of 
the following, as numbered in the ‘ Ma- 
nual,’ 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 21, 36, 37, 41, 
any of Thecla, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66, 70, 
73, 75, 136, 146, 204, 205. — Matthew 
Hill, Little Eaton, near Derby ; 
October 1 1 . 
CEUELTY OF THE WASP. 
To the Editor of the ‘ InteUigencer.' 
Sir, — I see by the ‘ Intelligencer,’ of 
the 18th of September, that you have 
been imposed upon : your kind-hearted- 
ness has induced you to publish that 
sentimental trash called “A Word for 
the Wasp.” I will unmask the impostor 
to you. You don’t know his wickedness, 
his innate cruelty of disposition, or his 
unprincipled, thievish pro|)ensities : hear 
his character from a humble bee. Only 
the other day a friend of mine, — a timid, 
inoffensive neighbour, Mrs. Muscarum, — 
told me that half a dozen of those free- 
booters, the wasps, entered her dwelling, 
W'hich is situated in the field opposite the 
entrance to my abode, and the villains 
not only devoured a great part of her 
honey, but, having satisfied themselves, 
off they went and told several of their 
reckless companions, in consequence of 
which she was plundered of most of her 
stores. 
Now, sir, not only do these wretches 
plunder us, but they actually plunder the 
homes of their weaker brethren, when 
they find them unable to defend them- 
selves. Last spring, not far from my own 
family residence, were three wasps’ nests ; 
the one nearest to my house contained a 
numerous and powerful family; I .saw 
them enter the nest nearest to them, and 
actually carry off the poor young ones, 
dragging them out of their cradles; they 
served the nest furthest off in the same 
way. What they did with the poor 
things which they kidnapped I don’t 
know ; but I know their murderous pro- 
pensities. Now this, sir, is a fact,— 1 saw 
it myself: you have my private address, 
and I can, if necessary, give you further 
particulars. 
Another trait in the characters of these 
Sepoys is that no sooner do these poor, 
harmless things, belonging to a respect- 
able family called Diptera, make their 
