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the ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
2. Steganopt 3 'cha 
1. uaevana 
2. geiniuana 
3. ustomaculana 
3. Ancliylopera 
1. ramella 
2. Mitleibacheriaiia 
3. Upupana 
4. subarcuana 
5. diniiiiutana 
6. biarcuana 
7. uncana 
8. Mj’rlillaiia 
9. Lundana 
10. derasana 
11. oblusaiia 
12. coinptaua 
13. siculana 
14. unguicella 
4. Bactra 
1. uliginosana 
2. lanceolaiia 
3. furfurana 
5. Argyvotoza 
1. Couwayana 
6. Dictyopteryx 
1. coiitaniinana 
2. Sbepheidana 
3. LcEflingiana 
7. CroEsia 
1. Bergmanniana 
2. Forskaleaiia 
3. Holmiaua 
8. Henierosia 
1. Rheediella 
ONE-SIDED IDEAS. 
To the Editor of the 'Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — In ibe ‘ Intelligencer’ of the 20th 
of November we were treated with a dis- 
sertation on the Japanese and their true 
palriolism in working out the products 
of their own country, and then we are in- 
fornied that the fabulous price of jC l lias 
been paid for a specimen of Centra bi- 
cuspis , — not in Jeddo, 1 presume, but in 
London ; and the inference one naturally 
draws from a perusal of the article is 
that, as Bicuspis is plentiful in France, 
specimens which would answer the pur- 
pose could be bought at a cheaper rate, 
although Nature may have caused them 
to assume a form differing somewhat 
from our British Bicuspis. Now it 
strikes me very forcibly that not only 
this article but several previous ones have 
for object the annihilation of those men 
who collect insects for a living, and may 
love the pursuit as a taste, though pur- 
suing it as a means of subsistence. What 
is there fabulous in the price of Bicuspis 
— as yet selling for £4 — is it not worth 
the money to those who feel disposed 
to be “patriots”? or is its worth to 
be judged according to its present 
rarity? Would £i each pay the 
collectors for every specimen which has 
been taken ? I should say not, nor £20 
either, if the men are to be paid in pro- 
portion to their assiduity and perseverance 
in having — year after year, winter and 
summer — looked after this species. The 
insect, like others, will only have its day 
of rarity : its capture is one of the col- 
lector’s “ agreeable pieces of business,’’ 
after having been six or seven hours in a 
swamp, on a cold winter’s day, poking 
about and staring round the alders till he 
is doubtful whether it is the alders or 
himself which is spinning round. One 
young friend of mine has several years 
of his life to book against Bicuspis, and 
so have I, yet neither of us, up to the 
present time, can boast of hawing cap- 
tured either a moth or a case, except 
such as have had plenty of holes in them ; 
if they would only make up with a hole 
in at one end I should be an adept at 
the business. 
Now my ideas arc certainly Japanese 
in moth matters, and 1 would sooner 
“stump down” the money than stare 
any longer looking for Bicuspis; for I 
think it just that men should be paid in 
proportion to their toil. This special 
