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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
stances of Micro-collectors who have 
made discoveries repeatedly of mar- 
vellous facts within a few miles of 
their own doors.” My good Sir, that 
is because every district is a new dis- 
trict in the study of those wondrous 
species which many men find too 
small to be worth observing. 
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OBSERVATIONS. 
Selfishness, Unscrupulousness and 
Presumption. — I little thought when 
I wrote the supplement to my note of 
last season with regard to Tripunctata 
that I should have such a dastardly 
attack made upon me as the one in 
No. 11. of the “Entomologist” by 
T. J. Carrington. 
With regard to Selfishness he seems 
to forget that in his notice he tries to 
take the credit all to himself, in find- 
ing that species, when I recorded the 
fact last year in the “Entomologist ” 
(No. 6, p. 44.) of having taken the 
larva on the 10th. of September, and 
I think anyone who has read Mr. 
Crewe’s description of the larva, 
could have no doubt about it. It 
is also very palpable and apparent 
that he betrays his own selfishness 
by the annoyance he shows at being 
forestalled, and it is also very ap- 
parent that I do not appropriate to 
myself the credit of breeding the 
insect, but give the credit where 
credit is due. With regard to the 
insect being new to York, I think 
the name of Mr. T. II. Allis is quite 
enough to satisfy the readers of the 
“Entomologist” of the truthfulness 
