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THE SUBSTITUTE. 
and as polished in their manners, 
as any members of the Entomolo- 
gical Club ; and it is believed by 
many who are the best qualified 
to give an opinion on so abstruse 
a subject, that their devotion to 
Science is truly disinterested and 
sincere, for they have been known, 
the rarest and fairest of them, to 
throw themselves unsought into 
some true entomologist’s net, as 
Cartius did once into that Roman 
chasm, from the single, and I must 
say somewhat singular, desire of 
appearing in the next ‘ Intelli- 
gencer’ or ‘ Substitute.’ Anxious, 
however, as iny constituents are to 
advance the cause of Science by 
moderate self-sacrifice, they are no 
less awake than ourselves to the 
necessity of self-preservation, and 
of guarding their rights and liber- 
ties against Goths and Vandals. 
The passing year has been one of 
great excitement to them all : they 
perceive with pleasure that extra- 
ordinary interest which is being felt 
in them Iry so many ardent minds ; 
but at the same time, they cannot 
divest themselves of apprehension 
that this increase of admiration 
and renown may be attended with 
serious personal inconvenience ; 
and it is in consequence of a reso- 
lution passed at a meeting of 
senatorial Bombyees in the Metro- 
politan District, who had for some 
time been laying their reverend 
heads together in consultation on 
this subjeqt, that I have been com- 
missioned to write to you this letter. 
Their propositions are simple and 
reasonable, and such, they trust, 
as all their real friends and ad- 
mirers will willingly accede to. — 
I. That a short code of laws be 
framed for their protection, in a 
spirit entirely different from the 
Game Laws, which entomologists 
justly abhor, but stringent w'ithal, 
and especially aimed against three 
classes of our fraternity — thus 
tabulated by their worthy secretary 
Pygcera Bucephala, who is partial 
to big B, and is a complete master 
of the tables in the ‘ Manual : ’ — 
BB. The “boys under fourteen,” 
whom Mr. Stainton does not re- 
ceive, and who, in the northern 
part of our island, amuse them- 
selves with bottling Arlaxerxes. 
BBBB. The rabid collector who 
snaps at everything right and left, 
and pinches and pins indiscri- 
minately and insatiably, actuated 
by no higher pastime than the 
amor kabendi. B B BBBB BB. The 
collector who kills to sell, or (one 
would think) to eat; for, for what 
other purpose could a man catch 
and pin 500 Cinxia or 2000 Cory- 
don — a monstrous fact which ap- 
peared in evidence before the 
Bombyees by two worn specimens 
of the respective species escaped 
from the Isle of Wight. Yes, Mr. 
Editor, 1 saw them with my own 
eyes, from three to six on a pin, 
enough to take a man a short life 
to relax and set; and all taken 
last season, probably at the same 
time that your kind-hearted ‘ Ram- 
bler in the Isle of Wight’ was 
rolling in the clover, or contem- 
plating the beauties of his captured 
Cardui. — II. That they should 
have their Sunday Bill — in other 
words, that they should be allowed 
one day out of seven for worship 
aiul recreation, which in their 
case, are synonymous terms. The 
evidence before the Bombyees on 
this point was indeed heart- 
rending, and made their very hair 
stand on end. It appears that on 
that day, when every true entomo- 
