THE SUBSTITUTE; 
Or, Entomological Exchange Facilitator, and 
Entomologist’s Fire-side Companion. 
No. 20.] SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1857. [Pbice 2d. 
FINIS. 
The ‘ Substitute ’ bad its origin 
lin the wish expressed by many of 
I the readers of the ‘ Intelligencer,’ 
(that there should be a winter jour- 
inal containing Lists of Duplicates 
and Desiderata, Notices of Sum- 
imer Rambles, &c. ; in fact, in the 
I phraseology of the play-bills, we 
appeared “by particular desire.” 
We have no reason to complain of 
. a want of support, as far as con- 
Itributions to our pages are con- 
I cerned, though we confess w’e 
! should have liked a larger audi- 
tence, and we now propose to give 
.a retrospective glance at our vo- 
lume. First, we will take the 
1 lists of 
DUPLICATES AND DESIDEEATA. 
Thes? have been numerous and 
copious, and on the whole, we 
believe, have been satisfactory. 
.‘Some persons have been disap- 
pointed in not obtaining the in- 
ssects they expected, and one cor- 
respondent vented his indignation 
lin no measured terms, but we 
have reason to think that the 
rmajority of those who have used 
our columns are satisfied with 
their exchanges, and have ob- 
tained many species that they 
would not otherwise have pos- 
sessed. We are satisfied with 
knowing that we have been the 
means of intercommunication be- 
tween collectors, who, but for our 
paper, would have remained iso- 
lated. Why it is we know not, 
but nearly all the lists came from 
Lepidopterists. 
Under the head of 
CAPTDBES 
we have recorded more than we 
expected ; in some instances great 
rarities, and in one a new British 
species — Leucania viiellina. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
These form the most bulky and 
numerous portion of the contri- 
butions of our correspondents, and 
besides “ Notices of Summer 
Rambles,” embrace a wide range 
of subjects. These papers are of 
very unequal value, as might have 
been expected. Some have been 
sneejed at for having little in 
them, but the critics forgot that 
every one does not know so much 
as themselves, and that there is 
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