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raulus to make them resume their 
wonted heat, — in other words, that 
we have not failed in our object, — 
“ to feed the flame.’’ 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
W e have handed all the unpub- 
lished contributions to Mk. Stain- 
ton to deal with as he thinks jit. 
DUPLICATES AND DESIDERATA, 
A young friend of mine in Ire- 
land has entrusted to my charge 
about twenty-five pairs of Anthro- 
cera Minos, unset. Being quite a 
young entomologist, and at the 
same time unacquainted with 
English collectors, he has re- 
quested me to offer them in ex- 
change for other Lepidoptera. 
Any gentleman, desirous of ob- 
taining a pair of Minos, will be 
I good enough to write to me in the 
first instance, stating what and 
I how many specimens he is willing 
to send in return. The insects 
I must be in good condition, and 
rarity will not be so much es- 
t teemed as quantity. — Eev. J. 
I Gbeene, Playford, Ipswich. 
[We regret that we have not 
I room for the list of the species 
fpossessed by the offerer of Minos, 
1 which accompanied this notice; 
it contains twenty-five species of 
t Rhopalocera, eight of Heterocera, 
I twenty-four of Bombyces, ninety- 
four of Noctuce, five of Pyrales, 
and fifty Geometrm. The ma- 
jjority of the species are not rare, 
and we expect there are plenty of 
persons who will lake the trouble 
of writing out a list of species 
which they have to give for 
Minos']. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
What’s his name P — Some thirty 
years ago Old Matthews told a 
good story of and mimicked, as 
only he could, a German cook, 
whose “ tender sensibilities ” al- 
lowed him to skin living eels 
without compunction, though his 
kitchen apron was up to his eyes 
in a moment at “ the Sorrows of 
Charlotte and Werter,” lamenting, 
that as “ he could not get dem in 
de German language, he must read 
dem in de English tong’’ and now 
a Liverpool Cooke laments hisigno- 
rance of the “ language,’’ and calls 
on me to put the German into 
English. Well, he may take the 
literal translation, “ a stripped oflf 
and dressed animal’s skin,” or the 
shorter one, “ a tanned hide,” or 
shorter still, “ leather,” whichever 
he prefers. The poetic is too 
long a story, and might prove 
quite as mysterious to him and 
his friends as it stands in German, 
and they must just consult some 
classical dictionary, and under 
“Amalthea,’’ will find the tale, 
and perhaps comprehend it and 
its application, especially if they 
bear in mind the specific name 
first given by Gmelin to the in- 
sect which represents the genus in 
Britain. — Proh Pudor. 
The Murder of the Innocents . — 
I thank you for your leader in the 
last ‘ Substitute,’ and sincerely 
hope that it may have some effect 
on the ravagers. I might have 
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