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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
sLould not the collection be made 
as instructive as possible? Suppose 
a deaf entomologist came to see us 
(Herr Bremi-Wolff was nearly stone- 
deaf) would not a collection in wbicb 
each specimen bore a certificate of its 
origin be far more interesting than one 
that contained only the stereotyped 
rows of Mackaon, Rhamni, &c. 
We are too much like a flock of 
sheep, — we do what others do, without 
considering whether we might not 
make improvements ; but surely a small 
collection with a history of each speci- 
men in it would be far more inslruc- 
tive than a larger collection with no 
notes to the specimens, and we trust 
the day is not distant when some one 
will carry out these ideas, which are 
corroborative of an old dictum we 
have heard that “ the worst private 
collection is more instructive than the 
best public collection,” because the col- 
lector relates to you the history of 
individual specimens, which the curator 
of a public collection does not. 
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A GaLL-I’UODUCING LF.PinOPTKUOUS 
Larva. — The larva of one of the smaller 
Tineina possesses the singular faculty of 
producing large pod-like galls on the 
common knot-grass (^Polygonum avicu- 
larr), a plant which loves to trail along 
