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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
CONTINENTAL SETTING OF 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
To the Editor of the ‘ Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — Dr. Staudinger is, I am glad to 
find, making converts. There is no com- 
parison between flat-setting and the old 
English style, the former being so much 
preferable in every way. Although 
verging upon the time of life considered 
by some authors “ too old,” I commenced 
re-setting my collection nearly twelve 
months ago, and am now more than half 
through. Many a wretched bad speci- 
men looks quite smart. I do not go the 
“ whole animal,” but use ordinary insect- 
pins, tolerably strong (fine ones I hate, 
for many a body and antennm have I 
jerked off through them), and allow the 
point of the pin to project a good half- 
inch through the insect. My objections 
to the excessively long Continental pins, 
are, — first, they require correspondingly 
deep drawers, which I have not got ; 
and, secondly, the longer the pin the 
stronger it must be (thus you get skewers 
from some Continental Lepidopterists), 
or bodies and antennae are in danger as 
aforesaid. I should be glad if collectors 
would attend to the antennae, and not 
allow these useful members to twist into 
all shapes : if set close to and parallel to 
the costa, they are not in danger in 
removing insects, and our cabinets will 
hold one or two specimens in each row. 
Our foreign friends want calling to 
account about this. 
Yours truly,' 
Fredeiuck Kendekdine. 
2, Abercrombie Place, 
Stretford New Road, Manchester ; 
Feb. 14, 1859. 
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M il. SQUIRE begs to inform 
intended Subscribers that many 
of his friends having advised him to go 
to Rio Janeiro, instead of the Cape, he 
intends to adopt that plan ; he has also 
the pleasure of slating that he does not 
now require Subscriptions, as he intends 
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THS BRITISH TORTBICBS. 
BY S. J, WILKINSON. 
This work will form one 8vo volume 
uniform with the series of the ‘ Insecta 
Britannica,’ and will contain descriptions 
of all the British species of Tortricina, 
with observations on their habits and 
localities. 
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